On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Documentation is probably protected speech, while diffs are actually
> program instructions. We'll see where it goes. Meanwhile, all this
> fear-mongering about draconian US export laws is nauseating -- is a
> single person in a US prison for ITAR violations related to encryption?
I'm working on a mini-howto for lsh (GPL implementation of SECSH, similar
to SSH), and while I won't contribute diffs to any of the code, I have
contributed a diff to one of the shell support programs (though it
doesn't even call any of the programs that do encryption/decryption), and
of course I'm doing howto documentation.
I'm aware of interpretations of various rules that tell me what I'm doing
is wrong. If someone comes knocking at my door, I will be surprized, but
not shocked. I think that harrassing someone over something like this is
exactly the kind of publicity the government doesn't want concerning their
ill-conceived crypto laws. Not that I consider that any kind of
protection.
It's aggravating being excluded from the real development work, though.
It's almost to the point that developing crypto skill sets is a pointless
exercise to a US citizen.
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