From owner-freebsd-security Sat Apr 22 11:55:57 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA29730 for security-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 11:55:57 -0700 Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA29724 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 11:55:56 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA10750 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 11:55:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199504221855.LAA10750@precipice.shockwave.com> To: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: US regulations on 'hooks' for encryption Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 11:55:23 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: security-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In the old days, I seem to recall that we had regulations prohibiting the export of code that had 'hooks' showing where encryption would be used, if it was available. I thought this changed back in '92, and now we can export everything except the encryption technology itself. Does anyone KNOW FOR A FACT if this is true? It would be nice to get rid of user programs in the secure distribution and merge that stuff back into the mainline code. Paul