[1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (7bit)>] From: SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; Date: 14 Oct 1998 01:16:20 -0700 XEmacs is small fry and we have done such civil disobedience in the grey area of Mailcrypt since before my time. It contains crypto hooks and thus is barred by the EAR. IANAL, but I think that you're wrong about this. The coupling is very loose -- it runs a seperate program that contains crypto, but one could put another filter in it's place and still have the package do useful things. I don't recall all of the details, but someone claiming to be a lawyer (Duncan??) on cypherpunks a few years back said that packages like mailcrypt and my own PGP Augmented Messaging were outside the scope of (at the time) ITAR and (I would assume) EAR as far as they address ``hooks'' in software.