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Re: [openpgp] Partial review of the crypto refresh

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Thu, 24 November 2022 15:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Partial review of the crypto refresh
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2022, Andrew Gallagher wrote:

[speaking as individul]

>               *  Some technologies mentioned here may be subject to government
>                  control in some countries.
>
>       Is this still true? Can this be removed?
> 
> IMO this should be kept in. Even if it is not currently true, it may become true again during the lifetime of this standard.

What is the goal of the statement? I don't see a value in it. It very
much feels like "may contain traces of peanuts".

We do not add these disclaimers to TLS or IPsec or any of the
cryprographic algorithms documents we publish at the IETF.

I would also be in favour of removing it.

Paul

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