Rich,
Was I there? ;)
Greg Stark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Salz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: OpenSSL and Mac OS and export fun
> > | I'm no expert but what you are suggesting sounds like "crypto with a
> > | hole" which has been asked about before and people have been told its
> > | illegal.
> >
> > I'm aware of this rumor, though I've never one heard it said by
> > someone who had actually discussed it with the government.
>
> Okay. While I was an employee of the Open Software Foundation (now
> known as The Open Group) I participated in several discussions with
> the NSA (and, sometimes, a large Unix vendor) to talk about source
> and binary export of DCE, DCE/PKI projects, and DCE-Web. To the
> best of my recollection, the following is a direct quote from one
> of the NSA folks:
> ... we call that crypto-with-a-hole and we don't allow
> that to be exported
>
> I remember the names of many present at one or more of those meetings
> and could give them were I subpoena'd. :)
> /r$
>
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