Re: kerneli blowfish/twofish compromised?

Paul Wouters (paul@xtdnet.nl)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 17:21:49 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Hell, we should just do this. We need a patch to postal gateway which
> > delivers to the nearest free soil and some volunteers to do OCR and some
> > filing of received mail to show that transfers are legit. Tools to
> > make OCR of source code relatively easy already exist, such as those used
> > by the international PGP group.
>
> Here's a question. Is it legal to fax it with checksums to an OCR reader
> automatically ?

As far as I know, this is illegal. It uses a "communications device". It has
to be a real dead tree AFAIK (clay tablets might also be allowed but might be
hard after the 10th line)

Paul

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