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In <34A88EC3(_dot_)7B2C1260(_at_)netscape(_dot_)com>, on 12/30/97
at 01:03 AM, Tom Weinstein <tomw(_at_)netscape(_dot_)com> said:
While I support the ideal of building standards that use strong crypto,
it does nobody any good to create a standard which won't get implemented.
The export ciphers exist because in order for US software manufacturers
to use TLS, they have to be able to export the software that includes it.
It is certainly true that there are many software developers who live in
the free world, but those of us stuck in the US still need to sell
software.
But who in their right minds are going to buy it??
I for one would *never* recomend to my overseas clients to use crippled US
export crypto products. There are just too many people writting
non-crippled software to justify it.
At the very least one would think that the US vendors would put thier
crypto code in one DLL and document the API so someone overseas could
replace it with somthing worth using. <sigh> I guess even that is too much
to ask.
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