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Anonymous (nobody@replay.com)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:41:40 +0100

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At 11:40 AM 1/18/99 +0000, James Maitland wrote:
>The DoC regulations are very broad, and include conditions for "crypto-shaped
>holes" in software.
>The end result is that to ship binaries, you're stuffed if there's even a
>mention of crypto in your API (say).

When filters are outlawed, only outlaws will filter.

"To insert your own 'filter' to translate the data, you call these functions.
Should your filtering code require context or state information, this
other part of our API will maintain that for you."

Pretty damn generic.

        "Delay, impede, even if it makes us look comic." --Motto of the TLAs

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