March 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
51
The Regs are Still Ambiguous
nIn the .NET Framework, we have a class library for cryptography… nIt took BXA (really, NSA) 18 months to tell us what the rules were regarding export of our class library… nWe could open up & let people subclass the bottom abstract classes (like RSA) without a license nOpening up AsymmetricAlgorithm was not allowed without an explicit license
nSolution? Open source the code!