On 19 Oct 1998 06:51:22 -0700, Teemu Peltonen teepee@netti.fi wrote:
Yet better, why wouldn't NetApp build and distribute the SSH implementation outside the USA? Then it would be available to all users, no matter where they lived. One of the most popular SSH implementations comes from Datafellows, a Finnish company.
That wouldn't work, unless they move their whole engineering building outside of the US (I don't think Canada would do, because they have similar laws, and treaties with the US). If they were to hire some programmers let's say in Australia, they wouldn't be allowed to merge the code with their source tree, and ship it from the US. The shipping builds would have to be compiled and sold from Australia. But even that wouldn't quite work because it means that the US programmers would have to leave hooks in their code for the encryption module, and exporting a program with hooks for an encryption engine also violates ITAR :-(
That's why I was saying that they'd more or less have to move their whole engineering team outside of the US (and might even have to hire non US programmers because I'm not so sure that a US citizen is allowed to develop encryption software for another country).
No, things are far from easy :-(
Marc