Re: [tbox-l] Problems with Crypto Content Site?

[Timothy B. <tjb...@gm...>]

On 7/14/06, Wil Cooley <wc...@na...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:40 -0500, Reza Arbab wrote:
> > Hi Larry,
> >
> > On 14 Jul 2006, 09:27AM CDT, Larry Starr <la...@fu...> wrote:
> > > Is there a, known, problem with that part of the site?
> >
> > Not sure what's going on, but I've reported this to our webmaster.
>
> Is there a good reason why, over half a decade after the US government
> relaxed restrictions on the export of open source cryptographic software
> source and binaries, IBM insists on locking them behind a lot of tedious
> click-through agreements instead of just distributing it openly with
> everything else?
>
> Wil
> --
> Wil Cooley <wc...@na...>
> Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd



I hope it is obvious I can't answer authoritatively for IBM, but with all
the horror stories I have heard from IBMers (and exIBMers) about their
lawyers and internal security practitioners, it wouldn't surprise me if the
rules were kept in effect for 50 years past the dropping of restrictions,
just to be safe.

I really feel for these folks