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Re: Java Crypto API questions



Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
> 
> Moltar Ramone writes:
> >  Probably.  But they won't be able to export the signed 3DES
> >  package :) It leaves foreign vendors in trouble, is where.
> 
> Sun can export the signature though.  The vendor already has the package,
> they just need the sig/cert...

  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

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