OpenBSD and Crypto in the New York Times

Dan Rieder writes "There is an article in the NYTimes about OpenBSD and Cryptography. The article deals with issues surrounding the export of cryptography and the fact that many 3 letter US government agencies are now using OpenBSD. Free subscription required to read."

Open source still under old crypto regulation

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When the Clinton administration recently announced plans to relax restrictions on exports of data-scrambling software, a key issue that escaped notice was that the new policies affect only shrink-wrapped software, not the original source code -- the lines of instructions that programmers actually write.

When it comes to source code, the undersecretary of commerce for export administration, William Reinsch, said last week that "nothing has changed."

That was new to me. Remarkable. Shows what the US government thinks.