Re: Lynx-SSL
Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
> It's even worse than that: a keyable transposition cypher is
> currently contraband under the published export rules (since it's
> keyable and it's not an explicitly approved encryption
> algorithms). Never mind that these kinds of cyphers existed long
> before the united states, and never mind that you used to be able to
> get implementations out of cereal boxes.
If this classification is accurate, it's too bad none of the cereal
companies are still doing this, and then shipping the cereal out of
the country. Someone could bring a lawsuit against them for munitions
export (or whatever laughable thing they're calling it these days).
This might just be ridiculous enough to get the law amended (or better
yet, abolished).
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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