I'm not sure exactly what you mean, Robert. Help him with making encryption function as a plug in?
It was my impression that there were no restrictions on the use of IDEA as it is the public domain; has this changed? If the problem is the source country for the encryption software, then it can be addressed. I'm not sure, though, that I fully understand the restriction. On Wednesday 04 September 2002 18:01, Robert Davis wrote: > Come on some of you programming geniuses on this list > help him out. I KNOW this would definataly benifit me. > And if I had the programing skill in C beyond the > basic > "hello world" ability I would do it for him. > ---ORIGINAL MESSAGE BELOW FROM TIGHT VNC > LIST---------- > Message: 7 > Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 17:02:23 +0200 (MET DST) > From: "Mas LIARFO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: > > Hi all, > > I've got bad news. > > As an individual living in France it seems that I'm > not allowed to > "expor= > t" a software that uses encryption. Not without a > special Governement > auth= > orisation that can take weeks (the software has to be > evaluated, > approved = > and son on...). > Seems that I'm only allowed to use 128 bits encryption > (the limit) for > my= > personnal and private use only. > > FYI, GnuPG and OpenSLL or officialy allowed to be > used/imported/exported = > in France only since mid-August 2002 ! > > So people planning to implement/use encryption in VNC > (or others Free > pro= > ject) should first be very carefull with the > legislation of their > countrie= > s regarding encryption. > > As a consequence, I must cancel the release of eSVNC > 1.1.2 with > built-in = > encryption until I've > got more informations. > > Maybe I will let the source code "encryption ready" > but without the > TwoFi= > sh and MD5 algos > sources. This way someone allowed could easely release > an encrypted > versi= > on. > > I'm currently emailing to people in France that could > help me on this > sub= > ject. > But there's good chance that the built-in encryption > in eSVNC is > borndead= > . > > Anyway, I will continue my developpement effort on new > features for > eSVNC= > and > a release should occur soon. > > And who knows, maybe there's specific permissive laws > for OpenSource > sof= > twares with encryption =3F > > > Sam :-/ > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > http://finance.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list -- ----------------------------------- Seth Kurtzberg M. I. S. Corp. 1-480-661-1849 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
