Re: Why doesn't Sun release the crypto module of the OpenSPARC? Crypto export restrictions

2008-06-12 Thread Richard Salz
I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than software. /r$ -- STSM, DataPower Chief Programmer WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/datapower/ - The

Re: Why doesn't Sun release the crypto module of the OpenSPARC? Crypto export restrictions

2008-06-12 Thread John Gilmore
I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than software. A hardware design is not hardware. Only a naive parsing of the words would treat it so. A software design is not treated like software; you are free to write about how ATM machine crypto is designed, even if you

Re: Why doesn't Sun release the crypto module of the OpenSPARC? Crypto export restrictions

2008-06-12 Thread Richard Salz
If only to make sure that there's no confusion about where I stand: I agree with you completely John. I am not surprised that the feds or Sun see it otherwise. /r$ -- STSM, DataPower Chief Programmer WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances

Re: Why doesn't Sun release the crypto module of the OpenSPARC? Crypto export restrictions

2008-06-12 Thread Thierry Moreau
Richard Salz wrote: I would expect hardware designs to be treated more like hardware than software. That's an interesting observation, raising the issue of what is speech vs hardware. When I looked into this issue, I found the Common Criteria certification methodology as evidence