[Cryptography] Security clearances and FOSS encryption?

[Tom Mitchell]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Rick Smith, Cryptosmith <me at cys.me>
wrote:
>>
>> It should be clear by now from the conversation that holding a security
clearance doesn't in general qualify or disqualify someone from working on
FOSS.
>>
>> There are a lot of scenarios.

.....

> I agree with you.  Our CipherShed project is currently too small to worry
about this issue, so I am going to assume it's OK....

The important bit is that you cannot know unless your personal position and
clearance includes and dominates this
need to know knowledge.

It is possible that he does not and cannot know.... It is possible that his
manager does not know and cannot know.

He would do well to disclose and ask inside his classified working
situation and communicate in writing to you, that he did
ask and that he did disclose to the appropriate authorities.



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