From: “Scott Staedeli” <scottst@ionet.net>
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Message Hash: 53749ce7e9b221d48f17f4f0a5cf8bc7c2cbc96d17d994700e0d39a185db7eb7
Message ID: <199511091727.LAA14980@ion1.ionet.net>
Reply To: N/A
UTC Datetime: 1995-11-09 18:17:29 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 02:17:29 +0800
From: "Scott Staedeli" <scottst@ionet.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 02:17:29 +0800
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Subject: Re: Pegasus Mail 2.20
Message-ID: <199511091727.LAA14980@ion1.ionet.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
> From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 07:50:44 -0500
> To: scottst@ionet.net
> Subject: Re: Pegasus Mail 2.20
> Cc: cyperphunks@osf.org
> I sure hope some tells David Harris that his program is now export
> controlled. From my reading of his message, it seemed like he thinks he
> "beat the system" because he didn't include actual crypto code.
>
> Software that says "plug your own crypto here" is considered an anciliarry
> device according to the ITAR. Or, as I heard some NSA people call it,
> "the classic 'crypto with a hole'." Seems kinda silly that the hole is
> the crypto, but hey that anciliiary device clause, you just gotta love
> it.
>
> If Pegasus mail were written to support generic user-loadable content
> transforms, that would be different. But even then, you have to be careful
> how that's done. If just did some global search-and-replace and came up
> with "keyed compression" you wouldn't get past anyone. But if you had an
> opaque state block that the user modules could set/use/clear, and you
> passed that along with your in/out buffers, then you'd be safe. Of course,
> they'd know what is really going on, but are powerless to prevent it.
> /r$
>
Actually, David Harris is a citizen of New Zealand. If the US government
tries anything, at least we'll know if ITAR applies to foreign written
freeware.
--scottst@ionet.net------http://www.ionet.net/~scottst--
>~<^xXx | "The Internet is simply a means of
xX # | communication. Efforts to stop infor-
(XXX) # | mation by enjoining it are doomed to
(XXXXXXX) | failure in a free society."
DON'T TREAD ON ME| -- Prof. Frank Tuerkheimer
========================================================
=========NSA trip phrase of the week: DEUTERIUM=========
Return to November 1995
Return to ““Scott Staedeli” <scottst@ionet.net>”
1995-11-09 (Fri, 10 Nov 1995 02:17:29 +0800) - Re: Pegasus Mail 2.20 - “Scott Staedeli” <scottst@ionet.net>