Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Summary re: /dev/random

[Thomas Roessler]

On 1999-08-14 12:27:30 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:

> It bothers me when people who are in favor of strong crypto
> automatically assume that anything which makes strong crypto easier
> will automatically be export controlled.  This assertion is clearly
> wrong.  The thing which most makes strong crypto easier is the
> (slow) general purpose CPU.  These have never been export
> controlled.

In DuD 2/1998 (I recall, one of the Roth articles on export
control), a case is quoted in which re-exporting a US-fabricated
i386 PC to Poland in 1990 is said to have lead to a conviction.