Re: Announcement of work in progress: Shaskell sha2 library

On 11/21/05, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

David Mercer writes:

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PS Have the major Haskell distributions had to directly deal with crypto export control issues yet, or has it been dodged so far by using only wrapper libraries, as appears to be the case from what I've dug up so far? Thanks again!

The current provenance of all the major Haskell compilers, and most of the minor ones, is outside the US.

ghc UK Hugs UK nhc98 UK hbc Sweden Cayenne Sweden Chameleon Singapore UHC/EHC Netherlands yhc UK

the main exceptions being: jhc US Eager Haskell US

But in any case, afaik none of the compilers includes a crypto library by default. Dominic Steinitz (UK again) distributes hs-crypto separately.

Malcolm, thanks very much for that list, I wasn't sure where all of the major Haskell compiler/interpreter distributions were based, and I actually think that that's the single longest list of same that I've seen on the Net so far (unless I just missed in on the haskell.org wiki and google or something!) I wouldn't want to break a distributions policy regarding freedom of exportability by my code's inclusion, but I'll admit that having it in the Hierarchical Libraries some day would be nice. And I can't help having been born a 'US Person', as they put it! In any event, as soon as we get this last bit of code finished and have it all converted into a Literate Haskell paper in the appropriate TeX format, I'm going to submit that for publication where ever seems most appropriate for such a thing. Suggestions on that are very much desired, as a matter of fact. At that point it can be scanned and legally posted online via the Zimmerman/Bernstein carved publication exception outside of the US. I can't believe this nonsense is still required, but there it is. -David Mercer Tucson, AZ