From: ghio@cmu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 95 07:50:27 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Would it be legal for a foreign site to carry Netscape?
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Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> asked:
> If someone would export the full 128 bit version of Netscape, would
> it be legal to make it available on a foreign site? After all, Netscape
> is a copyrighted product.

It would depend on what the license agreement said.

But why not just write a wrapper which strips out the 88 bits of plaintext
key?  (A "leaf blower" if you like:)  If you could get the author of slirp
to include it in his distribution, it would definately get used.  All you
would have to say is "This is a patch to ensure that netscape encryption
is properly secure when using slirp, and here are the diffs..."