In the United States, source code is considered expressive speech...
That is the good part. The bad part is that in that jurisdiction the government can legally compel any company or individual to assist it by whatever means deemed necessary in the subversion of communication secrecy in any product it provides to the public. While this may - and has been - tested in court, I very much doubt GnuPG has the resources to to so. All of this is however hypothetical: EU is simply attempting to gain the same access to communication mass-surveillance that the vendors of operating systems and hardware devices already provide to the authorities of their domicile jurisdictions under the arrangement described in the previous paragraph. R.B. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
