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Re: Java Crypto API questions
Jeff Weinstein <[email protected]> wrote...
> Not likely. Sun will probably be required to agree not to do this
>as a condition of exporting software with "pluggable crypto". Software
>with hooks for crypto functions is treated the same as the actual crypto
>as far as the ITAR is concerned.
>
> --Jeff
Just WHAT is a "hook" for crypto?? ;-) I've read about the
Microsoft crypto API, other such hooks and the "ban on
hooks", but who says a "hook" must be so "generic".
With things such as the "component object model" stuff
Microsoft is pushing and similar technologies in the UNIX
world, I can still see "hooking" to crypto. Though perhaps
more on an application-specific basis and not so "generically".
I acknowledge that crypto which is nearly "invisible" to the
end-user will make it more widespread, and thus the need
for a generic API.
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