Why "carnivore" type systems can't be (entirely) open source

[Owen Lewis]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: 05 February 2001 10:45
Subject: Re: Why "carnivore" type systems can't be (entirely) open source


> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:37:05 -0000
> "Owen Lewis" <oml@eloka.demon.co.uk> said...
>
> > To digress for just a moment. For many year's, supply of  DES was
limited by
> > export controls, though eventually those controls became full of more
holes
> > than a Gruyere.
>          ^^^^^^^
>
> ITYM Ementhal :=( .

No, Gruyere. ISTR that the Swiss were up in arms last year about a new US
regulation regarding the size and quantity of holes in a Gruyere to
permitted to be imported in the US. Whether or not this US initiative was
inspired by domestic security concerns I am not in a position to say.

OTOH German Emmental is quite often seen hole-less  - as befits a
fast-process product of indifferent to poor quality. Emmental is the basis
for a large range of processed cheeses.

Owen