[896] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Sun Microsystems to try to go around EAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri May 23 10:07:56 1997
In-Reply-To: <97May22.172736sst.15246-1@portal.extol.com.my>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 23:50:06 -0700
To: pclow@extol.com.my, Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@mta.ca>, cryptography@c2.net, risks@csl.sri.com
At 4:41 AM -0700 5/22/97, pclow wrote:
>Adam Shostack wrote:
>>
>> Is it less risky to sell unevaluated software or crippled export
>> allowed software?
>
>
>Hmmmm... the devil or the deep blue sea? As a non-US company
>that deals in IT security, this poses more of a problem than
>before. Any technical opinions on this list would be greatly
>appreciated.
If Sun (or the Russian company) releases a description of the cypher and
the source code for the implementation, then they can be evaluated
separately from any issues about who wrote them.
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