> From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 1:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: OpenSSL usage liability.
>
>
> dimrub> Sorry for being insufficiently explicit. The company in
Swiss
> dimrub> is going to have problems with US gov. not because they use
> dimrub> encryption over the border, but because they use in Swiss
> dimrub> software that does strong encryption that was developed in
> dimrub> US. Namely - OpenSSL. Or am I wrong again?
>
> You are wrong on one point: OpenSSL is *not* being developed in the
> US, and never (as far as I know) has. He same goes from it's
> predecessor, SSLeay (that was developped in Australia). If you
look,
> you will notice that all developers are currently from or in
Germany,
> UK and Sweden, at least as far as I can tell with whois. If you
look,
> you will notice that www.openssl.org is actually a machine in
> Switzerland.
Oh... Hmmm... I didn't know that. That is, I saw the page that lists
the geographics of the developer team of OpenSSL, but didn't pay
attention to this fact. Well, one worry less for our lawers. Thanks!
--
Dmitry Rubinstein
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