From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 22 01:05:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA18064 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 01:05:38 -0700 Received: from dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za (some.schmuck.lame.delegated.to.RAIN.PSG.COM [146.64.28.40]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA18034 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 01:04:51 -0700 Received: (from bertus@localhost) by dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA04423; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 10:06:40 +0200 From: Bertus Pretorius Message-Id: <199506220806.KAA04423@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: DES, crypt and eBones (fwd) (SITE outside USA) To: jhay@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 10:06:40 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506220707.JAA06214@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Jun 22, 95 09:07:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2615 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Many things deleted.... > > > > Give me a site stable enough that could be used and I we can talk it > > up in -core. But from past record we are not doing to good here. We > > have had 3 folks from outside the USA start down this road, and we are > > hoping that that Mark can stay with it for the long haul, but without > > a site as devoted to FreeBSD as freefall by corporate dollar I don't see > > us moving the bits any place. > > > > > > -- > > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > > Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD > > > > On this point, sorry for the lateness - I was on leave and even though jhay (John Hay) is good at development, he is a bit slow on giving me important messages - and I missed this one :) (He gave me a 'klap' for this). We, at the CSIR - the bunch that takes care of skeleton (Mark's crypt and eBones site) should qualify for the above needed place. In fact we are volutering to do the job. First I need to give some background to motivate our commitment to such a site. We are part of the Councel for Scientific Industrial Research of South Africa. The CSIR was founded more than 50 years ago with some 3000 people employed. The CSIR do basic research and development with our group looking after networking, information delivery, security and encryption. Our group's development environment is FreeBSD and the secure routers and firewalls developed is running on top of FreeBSD. This is a long term commitment and should stay like that while the FreeBSD culture stays the same. On the security and encryption side - we are in the use and design of security and encryption systems and algorithms for the past 12 to 15 years and this provides us a competetive edge in parts of our bussiness. I hope this emphasises our commitment to such a site - in fact an expansion of skeleton as it is now. On the operational side; jhay is looking after our main development machine and volunteered to look after the new skeleton as well. We will then be responsible for the uptime and backups of the machine and most likely mirror the last two releases and may be current of FreeBSD. That is sort of the framework and would like some inputs and other requirements. -- +-Bertus Pretorius------------ (O) (O) ---------------bertus@mikom.csir.co.za-+ | mikomtek ^ +27 12 841-3001 (Voice) | | CSIR \___/ +27 12 841-4720 (FAX) | +-----------------A smile is the same in all languages------------------------+