Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx & US Govt (was SSL for Lynx 2.8)

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Philip Webb wrote:
> 
> > so shouldn't the Lynx development co-operative, as an international effort
> > working by consensus, find a way for the SSL hooks to be freely available
> > from some site outside the USA, if possible?
> 
> Who prosecutes cases of munitions export?  Is there actually a human I can
> ask if distributing lynx w/ssl is ok?  
probably not - the system works by implying a threat to the distributors
and ftp sites (so that end is self-regulating).  On the other end, you'll
rarely find someone who's both willing to spend the time on something like
Lynx (where no money is involved), and able to "make" the decision. 

So - unless you got lucky and met the right person, or happened to fall into
some category that carries you along, it'll take a good bit of work to
point out the obvious (putting ifdef's in Lynx to make library calls to
SSLeay doesn't disclose any of the encryption algorithms).

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