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- From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Encription in 3.0?
- Date: 12 Sep 1992 01:41:15 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <pzvnw7+.abell@netcom.com>
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- In article <pzvnw7+.abell@netcom.com> abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) writes:
- >[lots of stuff deleted about why encryption didn't make it into 3.0]
- >
- >I think it's time that the U.S. Government got real about encryption
- >software. I have to laugh whenever I see shrinkwrapped software with
- >a little sticker that says it can't be exported because it contain a
- >DES function. Who do they think they're kidding?
-
- Give an encription API to NeXTMail, and NeXT should ship without any
- encryption module. Let Canon in Japan or an European subsidiary develop
- an encription module which then will be distributed to the world
- free via net. We just get it and pop it into our NeXTMail.
-
- US doesn't allow export, but it seems that there is no restrictions on
- importing. This seems like the most effective approach to deal with
- the laughable situation than fighting NSA on their turf.
-
- The only thing NeXT has to do is to design/publish a good API for external
- encryption modules.
-
- Come to think of it, this is a good opportunity for non-US developers to
- deliver a NeXTMail-compatible GUI mail program, but with DES or any other
- public key encryption built-in. They have a clear advantage over NeXT and
- US developers. Make a free demo version which can decrypt messages, but cannot
- send out encrypted messages.
-
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- Izumi Ohzawa [ $BBg_78^=;(J ]
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