[88549] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: no surprise - Sun fails to open source the crypto part of Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Mon May 14 19:55:54 2007
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:49:31 -0700
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <46485134.30909@systemics.com>
iang@systemics.com (Ian G) on Monday, May 14, 2007 wrote:
>Third option: the architecture of Sun's Java crypto=20
>framework is based on motives that should have been avoided,=20
>and have come back to bite (again).
I think it is likely that Sun architected the Java crypto framework to
be able to obey the letter of the export regulations then in effect.=20
They made it so the actual crypto implementations could differ from
country to country, and from supplier to supplier, while trying (not
very successfully IMHO) to provide a consistent application interface.
Cheers - Bill
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