"Martin v. LÃwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some countries have laws about cryptography software (against some > > combination of export, import, or use). The Python maintainers didn't > > want to deal with imagined legal hassles that might develop from > > including good crypto functions in the distribution. Then it became > > obvious that the same imagined hassles could also befall the rotor > > module, so that was removed. > > Do you know this for a fact?
I'm going by newsgroup messages from around the time that I was proposing to put together a standard block cipher module for Python. > The PSF does comply with the U.S. American export procedures for > crypto code, and reports the crypto code in Python appropriately to BXA. Since rotor was removed, there is no crypto code in Python that needs reporting. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
