Re: Crippled Notes export encryption

[Mike Gurski <mgursk1@gl.umbc.edu>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Derek Atkins wrote:

> > How exactly are crypto-hooks defined?  This restriction seems orders
> > of magnitude more bogus than even the ban on exporting actual
> > encryption.
> 
> Very vaguely.  If I have a function that does something like this:
> 
> authenticate (args)
> {
> 	...
> 
> 	des_encrypt ();
> 	...
> }
> 
> I would have to remove the des_encrypt() call from the authenticate()
> routine before it can be exported...

Would removing the call to des_encrypt() and replacing it with a
comment violate the restriction?  something like:

authenticate (args)
{
	...
	/* squeamish ossifrage */
	...
}


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