Re: Is there anybody there?

["Michael Graff" <explorer@iastate.edu>]

>The problem with clients being smarter is a classic one,  the netrek
>solution is to have binaries distributed which have a "key" to connect
>them to servers so that the client and servers can mutually
>authenticate.  There's not a lot you can do about this problem other
>than that solution.

The problem with this is that the RSA code used to both generate and use the
keys cannot be exported from the USA, and any binaries made with this sort of
thing cannot be exported either.

Export laws suck, but they are laws...  :(

--Michael

--
Michael Graff    Iowa State University Computation Center      Project Vincent
215 Durham                voice: (515) 294-4994           explorer@iastate.edu
Ames, IA  50011           fax:   (515) 294-1717           gg.mlg@isumvs.bitnet