RE: Crippled Notes export encryption

[Pete Loshin <pete@loshin.com>]

Joe Block wrote:
>
>At 11:50 PM 1/23/96, you wrote:
>>The problem is whether you can separate the functionality of what you're
>>exporting sufficiently from what you're contracting out that the exported
>>material isn't a "component of a cryptosystem"; it's tough to do a good bones
>>version of code if you're concerned about satisfying both the letter and
>>spirit of a law to avoid hassles with the government.  On the other hand,
>>if you're as big as IBM or even MIT, sometimes you can do it....
>
>So move 100% of the development overseas.  Pick someplace where the labor
>is cheaper (maybe the former Soviet Union, but I don't know what their
>crypto export laws are like) and develop 100% of the product overseas.  Put
[deletia...]

I've heard that India is the place to be for software
development these days (top talent for 10% the price of
Americans, or some such).  I've also heard that, for
example, CyberCash has a development office there.

-Pete Loshin
pete@loshin.com