zip with encryption

Sat Feb 21 06:23:00 GMT 2004

bbuchbinder wrote:
> I was wondering if it might be possible to have zip 2.3 re-compiled
> with encryption and re-released. Chuck Wilson stated in
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00005.html
> and
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-05/msg00018.html
> that it can be done but that first Red Hat needs to inform the U.S.
> government that binaries with encryption will be exported. I know
> that there are other ways to get encrypted zip files but it would
> be convenient if the official Cygwin zip would be encryption-enabled.

Also, I'm not sure what the implications are for our mirroring hosts. 
Does the law require them to also notify the US govt, simply because 
they mirror what sourceware's server provides? Surely the kernel 
mirrors have dealt with this issue; perhaps only the "primary source" 
needs to make the notification.
I don't know. I'm not a lawyer so I don't even WANT to know. But it's 
Yet Another Thing RH's lawyers would have to look into, just for little 
old me to include encryption code in cygwin's port of the zip package.
Not likely to happen -- especially with Red Hat's current legal issues 
taking up all the lawyering time. SCO, XFree86 licensing GPL 
incompatibilities, etc etc etc
--
Chuck
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