August 1998
- Affordances and social method (Was: Wired Jon A. Lambert
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** Jon A. Lambert
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** John Bertoglio
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- OT: BBSs, s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer Jon A. Lambert
- Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- (fwd) "Smart" monsters Nathan Fenenga Yospe
- Interesting poll Koster, Raph
- Interesting poll John Bertoglio
- Milgram experiment (was WIRED: Kilers have more fun) Mike Sellers
- Implementing god. quzah
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. J C Lawrence
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Koster, Raph
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Koster, Raph
- Implementing god. J C Lawrence
- Implementing god. Marian Griffith
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Andy Cink
- Blender: free version J C Lawrence
- Blender: free version J C Lawrence
- Blender: free version Adam Wiggins
- UOL/Linux client URLs J C Lawrence
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library J C Lawrence
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Chris Gray
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Chris Gray
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Nathan F Yospe
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library ##Make Nylander
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Why threading? (Was: Output Classification Notes) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Why threading? (Was: Output Classification Notes) J C Lawrence
- Secrets of the Game Designers s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- 3D World Models Leach, Brad BA
- 3D World Models S. Patrick Gallaty
- Toba Java->C Adam J. Thornton
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Franklyn Colebrooke, Jr.
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam J. Thornton
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Leach, Brad BA
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Holly Sommer
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Nathan F Yospe
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Holly Sommer
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Matt Chatterley
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- Question regarding Java threads Jon A. Lambert
- Question regarding Java threads Chris Gray
- Question regarding Java threads Vadim Tkachenko
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Question regarding Java threads J C Lawrence
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Question regarding Java threads Jon A. Lambert
- Question regarding Java threads Chris Gray
- Question regarding Java threads Matt Chatterley
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Protocols Vadim Tkachenko
- Events s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- after the plague: mud report S. Patrick Gallaty
- after the plague: mud report quzah
- after the plague: mud report Adam Wiggins
- after the plague: mud report Ling
- Object Storage Fact Book, Release 4.0 (fwd) Nathan F Yospe
- Affordances and social method (Was: Wire d Magazine...) J C Lawrence
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: J C Lawrence
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: kamikaze@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate J C Lawrence
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Koster, Raph
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Chris Gray
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Koster, Raph
- 208.240.161.41 Adam J. Thornton
- 208.240.161.41 Vadim Tkachenko
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Chris Gray
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Vadim Tkachenko
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Adam Wiggins
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Robert Woods
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Richard Woolcock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Richard Woolcock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev T. Alexander Popiel
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Mike Sellers
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Michael Hohensee
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev John Bertoglio
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Chris Gray
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Scatter
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- Adverts in email on the list. Ben Greear
- Adverts in email on the list. quzah
- Adverts in email on the list. Jon A. Lambert
- Adverts in email on the list. Holly Sommer
- Adverts in email on the list. Vadim Tkachenko
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Vadim Tkachenko
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- lurker emerges James Wilson
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Adam J. Thornton
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges James Wilson
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Ben Greear
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- Adverts in email on the list. Chris Gray
- Fw: lurker emerges James Wilson
- Fw: lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Neat surrealistic graphical mudclients in Java? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. J C Lawrence
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Adam J. Thornton
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- META/ADMIN: ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Mike Sellers
- META/ADMIN: ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Rule #3 S. Patrick Gallaty
- OT: Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Shawn Halpenny
- OT: Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Vadim Tkachenko
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: Chris Gray
- List of rules suggestionbox Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- List of rules suggestionbox Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges) James Wilson
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges Jon A. Lambert
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges James Wilson
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges Jon A. Lambert
- Amoeba: Distributed OS release J C Lawrence
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- clients anyone?... James Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Adam Wiggins
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... J C Lawrence
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- Re:Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- ADMIN: Over quoting (again) J C Lawrence
- JASSS: The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation J C Lawrence
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Leach, Brad BA
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout quzah
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Koster, Raph
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Koster, Raph
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Brandon J. Rickman
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout quzah
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Marian Griffith
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Damion Schubert
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout J C Lawrence
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout J C Lawrence
- LinuxThreads and SIGUSR1 (Ref: [MUD-Dev]) Adam J. Thornton
- Eye movement. quzah
- Eye movement. James Wilson
- Eye movement. quzah
- Eye movement. S. Patrick Gallaty
- Eye movement. T. Alexander Popiel
- Eye movement. Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- OGR: Ion Storm's Witchboy talks about the functionality of enemy AI. J C Lawrence
- OGR: Ion Storm's Witchboy talks about the functionality of enemy AI. s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout (fwd) Marc Hernandez
- avoiding ecological wipeout Laurel Fan
- Passing file descriptors to other processes Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- OT: access s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Affordances and social method cat
- Affordances and social method cat
- Affordances and social method Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Affordances and social method Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Missing MUD-Dev post (fwd) Dr. Cat
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- Affordances and social method Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor Problem Brandon Cline
- Marian's Tailor Problem Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Marian's Tailor Problem Brandon Cline
- Marian's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marian's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marian's Tailor Problem Chris Gray
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Mike Sellers
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Marian Griffith
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Nathan F Yospe
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Oliver Jowett
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Jon Leonard
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Ben Greear
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Jon A. Lambert
- Private Affordances and social method Mike Sellers
- Private Affordances and social method Marian Griffith
- Private Affordances and social method Mike Sellers
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun S. Patrick Gallaty
- free XML Parser (was clients anyone?...) James Wilson
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Jon A. Lambert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Koster, Raph
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers S. Patrick Gallaty
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers quzah
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers James Wilson
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Damion Schubert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers J C Lawrence
- UBE/high: UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Dr. Cat
- Marion's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Marion's Tailor Problem Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Marion's Tailor Problem jwilson@rochester.rr.com
- Marion's Tailor Problem Travis Casey
- Marion's Tailor Problem Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Marion's Tailor Problem Adam J. Thornton
- Marion's Tailor Problem Travis S. Casey
- Marion's Tailor Problem Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Marion's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Marion's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marion's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem Adam Wiggins
- Marion's Tailor Problem quzah
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem J C Lawrence
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marion's Tailor Problem Matthew R. Sheahan
- Marion's Tailor Problem quzah
- Marion's Tailor Problem Matthew R. Sheahan
- Marion's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem J C Lawrence
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Slightly-OT: RPG Mapping Tool Holly Sommer
- UBE/high: UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Scatter
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Scatter
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Brandon J. Rickman
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Damion Schubert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers quzah
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Adam Wiggins
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Travis Casey
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Brandon J. Rickman
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Koster, Raph
- Thoughts on Marian's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Standard Mud Room Format? plateau
- Standard Mud Room Format? T. Alexander Popiel
- Standard Mud Room Format? Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Standard Mud Room Format? J C Lawrence
- Standard Mud Room Format? Adam J. Thornton
- Standard Mud Room Format? Holly Sommer
- Standard Mud Room Format? Matthew R. Sheahan
- Standard Mud Room Format? Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Standard Mud Room Format? Scatter
- Tangent to the Tailor Marc Bowden
- PerLDAP, usefull for your perl-mud? quzah
- UBE/high: Affordances and social method Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Dr. Cat
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. J C Lawrence
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. Adam J. Thornton
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Sockets permanently in CLOSE_WAIT state. (fwd) Oliver Jowett
- Fw: BlackSquad Releases File Formats Damion Schubert
- Revenants (Marion's Tailor Problem) Damion Schubert
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... J C Lawrence
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... J C Lawrence
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Marc Hernandez
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Ben Greear
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Greg Munt
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Ben Greear
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Adam Wiggins
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Greg Munt
- [off-topic] Email Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Minimal MUD-kernel (was Finer points of Telnet programming ...) Niklas Elmqvist
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] pomales
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Modular MUD D. B. Brown
- Modular MUD quzah
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD quzah
- Modular MUD J C Lawrence
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- Modular MUD Holly Sommer
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
On 01:03 PM 8/31/98 -0700, I personally witnessed quzah jumping up to say:
>
>What's the big deal with encryption not being able to be exported? Does
>the government think noone outside the US is smart enought to think up
>some good encryption on their own?
I've done some research in the matter... whether this practice is right or
wrong is *definitely* off topic, but I'd personally figure that the
information about the practice itself isn't.
Encryption technology is classified as primarily military in nature, and
therefore regulated under "Category XIII-Auxiliary Military Equipment" of
the Munitions List, which covers Information Security Systems and
equipment, cryptographic devices, software and components specifically
designed or modified therefore -- *except* encryption used to prevent
software piracy, to maintain the integrity of data flow, in the processing
of monetary transactions (such as ATM machines and point of sale
terminals), to protect passwords and PIN codes (provided that the
encryption technology does not also allow the customer to encrypt files or
text messages), and encryption of signals for use in broadcasting.
Before you party, however, the above *do* fall under the Commerce
Departments dual-use control regime which is controlled by the DOCs
Bureau of Export Administrations Office of Strategic Trade and Foreign
Policy Controls based on the Export Administration Act (EAA), the Export
Administration Regulations (EAR) and the Commerce Control List (CCL). In
order to determine which category your software falls under (munitions or
export controls), you send your software to... guess who?
The National Security Agency. The NSA "... performs the technical review
that determines, for national security reasons, (1) if a product with
encryption capabilities is a munitions item or a Commerce List item and (2)
which munitions items with encryption capabilities may be exported. The
Department of State examines the NSA determination for consistency with
prior NSA determinations and may add export restrictions for foreign policy
reasons-- e.g., all exports to certain countries may be banned for a time
period... The detailed criteria for these decisions are generally
classified. However, vendors exporting these items can learn some of the
general criteria through prior export approvals or denials they have
received." (General Accounting Office, "FBI Advanced Communications
Technologies Pose Wiretapping Challenges", 1993c.)
The NSA also advises companies as to whether products in development would
be munitions items and whether they would be exportable, according to State
Department representatives.
So, in a nutshell: When you create a program that uses encryption, that
program must (evidently) pass three reviews. First, the NSA determines
whether your encryption is regulated as munitions. Second, either the NSA
or the Commerce Department determines whether your software is of
sufficient strength to merit export control. And third, they provide you
with a license agreement which must be included with the software, such as
the following from PGP 2.6.2: "PGP is export restricted by the Office of
Export Administration, United States Department of Commerce and the Offices
of Defense Trade Controls and Munitions Control, United States Department
of State. PGP cannot be exported or reexported, directly or indirectly, (a)
without all export or reexport licenses and governmental approvals required
by any applicable laws, or (b) in violation of any prohibition against the
export or reexport of any part of PGP. The Government may take the position
that the freeware PGP versions are also subject to those controls."
What it looks like to me is that *whatever* you do, the encryption process
must be reviewed and verified by the NSA and/or the Commerce Department. I
would suspect that there are at least *some* established exportable
encryption methods, but they seem reasonably hard to find.
The obvious solution is to use something widely available as a plug-in. A
developer in the UK has written a set of Windows DLLs which implement DES,
IDEA, MD5, and MDC ("a cipher based on the strong cryptographic properties
of MD5"). This set of DLLs is available from many servers outside the US,
but must be provided for at compile time, so whatever you use them with has
to be specifically targeted at them and recompiled by the end user. For
client software, this isn't really reasonable, and since it's Windows I
think it may not be what most list readers are looking for.
Here's the weird part. While encryption *software* is a munition,
encryption *algorithms* are speech -- so while you cannot export source
code for IDEA, you can quite freely export instructions on how to write
such source code. Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" hit up against
this snafu; while the book was exportable, the government flatly refused
under any circumstances to allow them to bundle a source code disk with it.
This lends itself to certain possibilities. You *could* create software
which DOES NOT ENCRYPT -- but which allows encryption when a user-supplied
library is available. Ideally, this would be done at runtime. You could
provide an "example" description which specified your proposed standards
for the encryption library, and then hope that someone out there wrote
one... or you could coordinate (as has been suggested) with another
developer outside the US, who would develop the encryption library prior to
release and then just have it available for download on his internet site.
Alternately, you could use an already-available dynamic library from a
non-US source.
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- Modular MUD Vadim Tkachenko
- Modular MUD John Bertoglio
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet progra Jon A. Lambert
- OS Wars [Was: Modular MUD] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet progra Jon A. Lambert
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Chris Gray
- The 'consider' command Richard Woolcock
- The 'consider' command Damion Schubert
- The 'consider' command Jon Leonard
- The 'consider' command Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Scripting:was Modular Mud Jon A. Lambert
- Quake 3: How to do OpenGL J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
- lockless system - foolproof? Chris Gray
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? T. Alexander Popiel
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? T. Alexander Popiel
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- Admin: OS wars and avocacy are off-topic J C Lawrence