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Comment:
Trim out irrelevant portions of the IRC transcript.

  The following IRC conversation occurred in irc.freenode.net ##crypto, and 
carries some concerns/questions about the planned approach raised by a user 
therein:
  
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+ From irc.freenode.net ##crypto, Wed Jan 09 2012, around 11am EST:
- <cmpilato> Hello, all.  The Subversion version control system project
-    is toying with adding an encrypted store for user auth creds (of the
-    master-password-governed variety).  The store would be used only for
-    auth data -- not file/wire encryption.  I'm trying to figure out if
-    that would force us to do all the fun U.S. ECCN-related registration,
-    or if that usage is non-controlled.  I *think* we'd be exempt under
-    the terms, but ... I'd feel better with supporting docs from a domain
-    that ended in ".gov". :-) Any advice (including "Go away -- you're
-    asking the wrong channel!")?
- 
- <rizlah> hmm
- 
- <rizlah> I doubt it
- 
- <rizlah> If you distribute as source (e.g. linux) and add the
-    necessary warranty clause
- 
- <rizlah> https://www.kernel.org/ , scroll to the bottom about
-    cryptographic software [ed: https://www.kernel.org/#crypto]
- 
- <rizlah> iirc this would have been an issue back in the 90s, but
-    seeing as AES/etc are freely licensed, there isn't much the
-    governments will / want / can do about it being distributed
- 
- <rizlah> But as always, IANAL (not a lawyer, for those who don't get
-    it)
- 
- <cmpilato> rizlah: thanks!
- 
- <yfeldblum> cmpilato, why not strong salted hashes instead?
- 
- <yfeldblum> cmpilato, e.g., pbkdf2, iterated hmac-sha256, or bcrypt?
  
  <cmpilato> yfeldblum: here's the spec:
     http://wiki.apache.org/subversion/MasterPassphrase any additional eyes

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