On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 07:28 PM, anonimo arancio wrote:
> The basic argument is that, if good encryption is available overseas
> or easily downloadable, it doesn't make sense to make export of it
> illegal.
Nope. The biggest name in software right now is Microsoft, who wasn't
willing to face down the government on this. no export version of a
Microsoft product had decent crypto while the export regulations were in
force - and the situation is pretty poor even now. If microsoft were
free to compete in this area (and lotus, of notes fame) then decent
security *built into* the operating system, the desktop document suite
or the email package - and life would get a lot, lot worse for the
spooks. I assume everyone knows the little arrangement that lotus
reached with the NSA over its encrypted secure email?
