From: Alex Tang <altitude@CIC.Net>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 06:48:30 PDT
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Subject: Re: building libraries
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On Mon Jul 31 01:25:04 1995: you scribbled...
> 
> 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.

Yeah, this would work for everyone except commercial institutions within
the states.  They'd have to get a license agreement for RSA.

...alex...

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