Thanks! I found that US law strange if not silly. How DES (or others encryption method) works is public knowledge and I bet anyone in the world who wants to use it can use it, leagally or not. Why bother prohibiting export?
But anyway... is Japan made Palm device such as the ones made by Sony sold officially in US considered a "US device"? Max --- Joe Programmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Max Bian wrote: > > > I found function EncDES in encrypt.h in the > > > Core include directory. Has anyone > > > tried it? Does it work at all? I couldn't > > > find any ... > > ... And I just found an old post (Sun Oct 3, 1999) by > Ken Krugler who says that EncDES is only conditionally > supported. Here's an excerpt: > > On a related topic, while EncDigestMD5() > should always be available on 2.0 or later > versions of Palm OS, note that EncDES() > (also added in 2.0) is conditionally > implemented - if you're running on a non-US > device, then calling that trap generates a > "DES Not Supported" fatal alert. To check > for the presence of this support, you'd > need to use FtrGet, as in: > > UInt32 attributes; > Boolean hasDES; > hasDES = (FtrGet(sysFtrCreator, > sysFtrNumEncryption, &attributes) == errNone) > && ((attributes & 0x01) != 0); > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please > see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
