On Sat, 10 Dec 1994, Stephen D Crocker wrote:
Kazu,
U.S. export laws prohibit general distribution of the MIME-PEM
software outside the U.S. and Canada. World distribution of the
software without RSAREF is also prohibited, so the answer to your question
is no, there is no world available version of TIS MIME-PEM, with or
without RSAREF.
You asked about documents and/or manuals. The specifications are the
Internet Drafts which you are responding to, and they are widely
available, of course. Release of documents and/or manuals is a
separate matter which I leave to the TIS folks to answer.
Sometimes the only way to know if your implementation will work with
another one is to pull the other one apart and see what weird little
things have crept in and to see the tricky little implementation hacks
that one wouldn't normally think of.
I wonder if it might be possible to create a version of TIS MIME-PEM
(or any PEM implementation for that matter) which has the cryptographic
code ripped out, leaving just the support routines that convert to
and from the MIME/RFC822 message format?
One problem with this is that the US export restrictions seem to also
apply to code that you can plug in extras overseas and make the product
work again. Might it be possible to randomize the function calls to the
RSAREF library in some way so that plugging the code back in again is a
very difficult task, yet leaves the support routines alone?
Just an idea ...
Cheers,
Rhys.