Rich Salz wrote:
>
> > but the heaviest point is that we can't seem to
> > get any guarantee against effects of future changes of those same
> > regulations.
>
> Perhaps because the illegality of such "retroactive" actions is a fundamental
> part of our legal framework? If it's legal now, it can be illegal later, but
> you can never make a law or ruling that says "what you did before used to be
> okay but now isn't."
??? Crypto export was once legal, surely? If we go back far enough, that
is.
Anyway, in the case of the current regs, IIRC (which I think I do), they
_explicitly_ reserve the right to make future restrictions on exported
code. I know that opinion mostly says that that would be, in practice,
impossible, but...
> The gentleman from Intel implied here that they have legal staff who could
> help clarify and confirm this issue...
I'm happy to have a second opinion, though it isn't clear to me what the
value of an opinion from a firm that has a vested interest in that
opinion is.
Cheers,
Ben.
--
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
Coming to ApacheCon Europe 2000? http://apachecon.com/
______________________________________________________________________
OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org
Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
