On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 22:17 +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: > I have an (official ?) email from the IMOD Encryption Control > Director that exempt any individual or company that uses e-mail > encryption for its own needs, as long as the user or company is > not in "encryption business".
This is very interesting. Not that I doubt the sincerity of the official from the ministry of defense, but this email - to the best of my understanding - does not exempt two very common uses of open source encryption technology: * A consultant (such as yourself) that in a commercial setting helps another company is setting up encryption based on open source software (which is not explicitly allowed in the list of allowed means). This falls under "מוכרים". * Anyone that hosts a mirror of open source software collection, some of it uses encryption (like any Linux distribution). This looks to me to fall under the "מפיצים" clause in the original email. As a consultant I find it troubling that by choosing open source software over commercial software for setting up basic services for customers (such as encrypted e-mail, backup and/or remote access) I can find myself in danger of being in violation of the encryption law. -- Oded ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
