From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 95 22:24:12 PDT
To: Alex Tang <altitude@cic.net>
Subject: Re: building libraries
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At 08:40 PM 7/28/95 -0400, Alex Tang wrote:
>> The answer is to have some non-USA entity build shareable full fledged 
>> full powered crypto libraries and provide them for free for the rest of 
>> the world and for all machines.
>Wouldn't there still be licensing issues to deal with (in the states at
>least)??  I'm sure RSA would claim that the package would be in violation
>of the licensing...

If you did everything in an RSAREF-compatible manner, that would help;
I think somebody outside the US has written an RSAREF-clone.
Some problems include building programs that have generic-callout hooks
instead of crypto-specific hooks (so that they don't get bitten by ITAR),
while still maintaining reasonable efficiency and convenience.

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