[1866] in WWW Security List Archive
Antw: Re: Integrating Encryption Module to Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (plipp)
Mon Apr 22 05:55:27 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:51:18
From: plipp <plipp@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at>
To: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Cc: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> It is not at all clear that it would be legal. By sending the non-crypto
>part of Netscape Navigator outside the US for the purposes of retrofitting
>strong crypto, we may be commiting a criminal conspiracy to get around
>the ITAR. The whole thing is a horrible mess that makes little sense
>to normal humans, and does not seem subject to logic.
If you would remove all calls to crypto-related functions, it would be le=
gal,
wouldn't it? It would be more work to put it in again, though.
Peter
Peter Lipp, IAIK, University of Technology, Graz
Dept. for Applied Information Processing and Communication
Klosterwiesgasse 32/I, A-8010 Graz, +43 316 873 5513
