Re: lynx-dev Lynx and SSL-encrypting

[brian j. pardy]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> This has probably been covered a zillion times in the past, and I saw someone
> mention that they thought that even making it easy to make Lynx do SSL through
> hooks would be disallowed.  I really don't get that..  Let's talk just in
> the US for example.
> 
> Why couldn't Lynx code contain the following..
> 
> #ifdef DO_SSL
> #include "SSLStuffHeaderFile.h"
> #endif
> 
> 
> #ifdef DO_SSL
>                       CallTheSSLStuff();
> #endif
> 
> and CallTheSSLStuff would be implimented in a package you got separately and
> unpackaged on top of your existing Lynx package, so it plopped sources in the
> right places?

I think the only reasoning against this is that no one seems to have tried
it yet.  mutt has pgp hooks (all they do is *call* an external pgp binary
for messages with the proper mime-type), for example, and rather than risk
it, the US-export version is without pgp hooks.

I think everyone is afraid to push the government's buttons here, with good
reason.

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