Re: lynx-dev Dos SSL support

[Matt Ackeret]

On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Doug Kaufman wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Matt Ackeret wrote:
>> Uhh, what do patents on software have to do with the export controls??
>This refers to the RSA patent, which would prevent someone in the US
>from using a lynx compiled with SSLeay that was made available outside
>the US. Export controls prevent those outside the US from using a lynx
>compiled with SSLeay that was made available within the US.

But isn't the real underlying issue the fact that the US government doesn't
want *encryption* at that level being exported?

In other words, it's not the patent that is the issue, it's the level of
the encryption in general.