Re: [MiNT] Sparemint announcement

[Teemu Hukkanen <tjhukkan@fishpool.fi>]

Frank Naumann <fnaumann@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> writes:

> most of you have probably heard about a secret thing called 
> Sparemint that has been worked on during the past couple of
> months.  The time has come to "reveal" the secret. ;-)

> P.S.: One note, especially for U. S. users:  Sparemint possibly
> violates export restrictions in some countries of the world.  This
> is not intentional but on the other hand we just don't care. ;-)
> However, although all Sparemin software is free, it may be 
> illegal to redistribute, export or even use some packages in
> your country.  One example is currently mutt.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is actually false, mutt itself doesn't contain cryptographic code,
only crypto-hooks. Mutt development used to be in two branches, mutt and
mutt-i (the latter being the international version, with crypto-hooks),
but it's integrated now, as crypto-hooks themselves aren't illegal to
export.