On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:51 am, Dalibor Topic wrote: > I'd love having a simple way to > chuck in GNU crypto into kaffe without having to bother with those > weird U.S. crypto laws, as kaffe's CVS server is located in > California.
Actually, these "weird crypto laws" are not specific to the U.S. The follwing states are currently participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States. The participating states implement the Wassenaar Arrangement in national laws and regulations. These may or may not be identical with the text of the arrangement. General info; contact lists of national bodies http://www.wassenaar.org/ "List of Dual Use Goods and Technologies And Munitions List" Category 5, Part 2: Information Security [Specifies the technical criteria, such as key lengths, for crypto software to be considered dual-use technology] http://www.wassenaar.org/list/wa-list_02_1cat5p2.pdf "General Software Note" [excludes software "in the public domain" from the control regime] http://www.wassenaar.org/list/wa-list_02_1gtnandgsn.pdf Text on the FSF website about the Wassenaar Arrangement [They call it "Wassenaar Agreement"] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/wassenaar.html -- Sascha Sascha Brawer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
