Intel subsidiary fined for unlawful export of software that enables encryption
How utterly pathetic.<p>Encryption export restrictions are an absolute joke. I can go read a Wikipedia article right now that heavily details the inner workings of most block ciphers. They're still fining people for exporting anything over 64 bits (which is most things), even if almost every individual let alone government has access to the technological knowledge to reproduce such encryption at home.<p>Seems like this fine is about them exporting a custom Linux distro' with all the normal encryption libraries still in-place (e.g. 256 AES).<p>Why do I get the strong sense that this fine isn't really about exporting encryption and is really about Wind River failing to place backdoors into this equipment? Because frankly that makes a lot more sense than what it appears to be on the surface.<p>Wind River got fined for "something" to do with encryption. Now you can either take the government at their word and assume that that thing is just exporting AES 256 within a standard OS, or maybe consider it a little deeper and wonder if it was punishment for something else Wind River did or didn't do.