rotor replacement

[Robin Becker]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Robin Becker <robin at SPAMREMOVEjessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Paul Rubin wrote:
>>
>>>"Reed L. O'Brien" <reed at intersiege.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I see rotor was removed for 2.4 and the docs say use an AES module
>>>>provided separately...  Is there a standard module that works alike or
>>>>an AES module that works alike but with better encryption?
>>>
>>>
>>>If you mean a module in the distribution, the answer is no, for
>>>political reasons.
>>>
>>
>> .....I'm also missing the rotor module and regret that something useful 
>> was warned about and now removed with no plugin replacement.
>>
>> I had understood that this was because rotor was insecure, but you 
>> mention politics. Are other useful modules to suffer from politics?
>>
...
> Presumably he is talking about crypo-export rules.  In the past strong
> cryptography has been treated as munitions, and as such exporting it
> (especially from the USA) could have got you into very serious
> trouble.

well since rotor is a german (1930's) invention it is a bit late for 
Amricans (Hollywood notwithstanding) to be worried about its export

> However I believe those restrictions have been lifted (the cat having
> been let out of the bag somewhat ;-), and its easy to do this for open
> source encryption software.  A wade through
> 

-- 
Robin Becker