Re: Updates prior to the release of cryptlib 3.3.4/3.4.0

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib
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Tomas Gustavsson <[email protected]> writes:

>Sorry for intruding, but is it not considered a very bad idea to have
>technology specific legislation?

Yes.  It's also considered bad form to have unenforceable laws and other 
things, but they get passed all the time anyway :-).  X.509 has been a 
particular problem ever since Utah's "Law of X.509" in 1995, luckily the 
remnants of this idea only seem to persist in some European countries where a 
few local vendors meet the necessary silly-walk requirements and everyone else 
can ignore them (see for example the list of SigG vendors that Peter linked 
to, it's the usual suspects who'll line up at the trough of government 
funding, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bank, T-Online, that sort of thing, and 
you may as well not bother trying to play in that game).

Peter.

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