nanogui: Access control
Subject:
Re: Access control
From:
Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date:
14 Dec 2000 17:43:12 -0000
Message-Id: <E146cV3-0000I1-00@the-village.bc.nu>
> it would prevent people in countries with draconian encryption import
> regulations (like France) from downloading it, and might not be exportable
You are out of date on France, they got the message.
> from the US (I'm not sure what the exact situation with regard to that
> is at the moment) so it'll be available as a seperate archive hosted in
> the UK instead. I assume there are no regulations preventing people from
> downloading software which contains hooks for making use of encryption
> code but not the encryption code itself?
The US government counts crypto hooks as crypto. They are such fun folk.
Distribution of crypto from the US is now pretty trivial though
