rotor replacement
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jan 20 12:34:00 EST 2005
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Some countries have laws about cryptography software (against some
> combination of export, import, or use). The Python maintainers didn't
> want to deal with imagined legal hassles that might develop from
> including good crypto functions in the distribution. Then it became
> obvious that the same imagined hassles could also befall the rotor
> module, so that was removed.
Do you know this for a fact? The PSF does comply with the U.S. American
export procedures for crypto code, and reports the crypto code in
Python appropriately to BXA.
Regards,
Martin
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