"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My recollection is that certain cryptography laws make hooks for crypto > just as problematic as actual crypto code. We'd have to tread very > carefully --- "general purpose" hooks are OK but anything narrowly > tailored to encryption purposes would be a hazard.
Afaik the US was the only country with such a scheme with the ITAR export regulations and that's long since gone, at least as it applied to crypto. The current US export regulations don't have any of the stuff about hooks in them and exempt free software from any crypto export licenses. Doesn't stop some other country from coming up with the same idea of course but we don't generally worry about what laws some hypothetical country might introduce at some point in the future. That way lies madness. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
