> > From: Geoff Thorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > The strength of the cryptography being *used* across the
> > border should not
> > matter. Someone in the US can talk to my webserver at 128-bit
> > crypto (and
> > vice versa) if they want and are not guilty of exporting
> > crypto. If they
> > try to send me a 128-bit *tool* with which to conduct such
> > transmissions
> > then they do have a problem.
> >
> > The use of crypto is not the problem with the US (although it
> > was/is in
> > France and may be in other places too) ... it's the
> > distribution of the
> > tools with which to perform the crypto that is the sticking point.
>
> Sorry for being insufficiently explicit. The company in Swiss is going
> to have problems with US gov. not because they use encryption over the
> border, but because they use in Swiss software that does strong
> encryption that was developed in US. Namely - OpenSSL. Or am I wrong
> again?
I assume that no one of the OpenSSL dev team is US citizen
and Eric Young is from .nz.
Regards Rene
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