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At 09:51 PM 9/5/00 +0800, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
>This applies to source code only I think. If I put up a binary of a
>strong encryption program on one of my web pages it would certainly
>be illegal for me, the author, to download it. The American law
>factory is frankly getting on my nerves now that I've ventured into
>this sensitive domain.
>
Didn't the american government allow the export of full strength PGP?
Which in turn caused the OCR and source code scanning project to
stop. GnuPG is also free, (sorry for the pun).
Frankly, with the NSA's $4 billion a year budget and IBM playing with
quantum computers, it wouldn't matter much if you used 8192/1024 bits
for encryption. Brute force will soon be a thing of the past.
>Besides, one of the programs would be a version of the now
>infamous DeCSS code converted into several types of assembly
>language.
>
Which ones did you convert it to? GAS, NASM, TASM, MASM, ARROWSOFT,
FASM, what else? Does one still need a DVD drive to rip the data?
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