From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA25913; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:02 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA03145 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.44.193]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g35FB0X19179 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from luther@localhost) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA21888; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:12:22 +0200 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:12:22 +0200 From: Sven To: "Krishnaswami, Neel" Cc: "'caml-list@inria.fr'" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cryptokit: cryptographic library for OCaml Message-ID: <20020405171222.A21875@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from neelk@cswcasa.com on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:00AM -0500 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:00AM -0500, Krishnaswami, Neel wrote: > Sven [mailto:luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr] wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:02:14PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote: > > > My amateur, unfocused interest for applications of > > > cryptography led me to implement the Cryptokit library of > > > cryptographic primitives for OCaml, providing: > > > > Mmm, what are the legal restriction related to this ? Is it legal to > > distribute it in france (legislation may have changed since > > last i checked about such things a few years ago) ? Is it legal to > > distribute it from an US based server (i think yes, but you would > > need to declare the software to the NSA or something such). > > I don't know about the details of French law, but in the USA > there is no need for any review of open-source cryptography > software, whether in source or binary format. > > See: http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/EncryptionRuleOct2K.html There is no restriction on exportation, but you need to fill a declaration or something with the NSA (i think) about it. I followed from far all the discution about it when debian decided to move the crypto stuff from its non-us servers into the main archive which is us based, so it would be no problem for me to package it as a debian package. There may be french issues though, since it is distributed from inria's web site. But then i think, due to the Bank's pressions on the governement, that most of those restriction were lifted a year or so ago, not sure though. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners