Re: need decision on packages with crypto hooks
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> It's fine as long as there are stub libraries and no real encryption
> software distributed with the applications. The fact is that we are
> already as vulnerable as we can be to prosecution - we provide source
> code for all programs, and the compilers used to build them, and they
> can be easily modified to use encryption in monents once they are
> exported. We also provide the dangerous and sinister pipe(2) system
> call, which is a hook that can be used to connect almost any program
> to a cryptography system.
>
> It just doesn't look enforcable. When someone is successfully
> prosecuted then I'll worry.
>
Couldn't we peacefully consider the idea of stopping all this
"embarrassment" and move master in Europe?
We still use only net access to the systems, so having them out of the
range of such "laws" couldn't hurt, but only keep away problems.
Fabrizio
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