Phil Karn writes:
 > So it appears that there is now a significant difference in the
 > treatment of source code and object code, even object code compiled
 > from open source already on the net. Am I correct?

Yes, but I don't see how it matters.  Arrange for the crypto to happen
in an external program, and write that program in Perl or Python,
where the source code *is* the object code.

 > What about the "open cryptographic interface" provision?

Doesn't seem like an impediment to me.  Crypto decoding in email is
just a special case of MIME decoding, or uudecoding.  If you were
clever with the API, it wouldn't be a crypto API, it would be a
general purpose content modification API.

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