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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 03:28:50 -0400
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
To:        Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0 CD, crypto and SSH
Message-ID:  <20000619032850.A555@cokane.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000619084006.C1802@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>; from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:42:05AM -0400
References:  <20000619081208.B1802@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <200006190620.XAA06572@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000619084006.C1802@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>

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Take the US locations out of the search list and the locations of the inferior
RSAREF. I don't think that you have much of a choic if you are not in the US
though, at least not yet anyway.

Szilveszter Adam had the audacity to say:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:20:49PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > > Er, why not just install the rsaref port, like it tells you to?
> > > 
> > > Ehm... I am not in the US, and my rsaref port's License says:
> > > 
> > >     6.   You can't send or transmit (or cause to be transmitted)
> > >           RSAREF outside the United States or Canada, or give it to
> > >           anyone who is not a U.S. or Canadian citizen or doesn't have
> > >           a "green card."
> > 
> > You'll note that a goodly number of the MASTER_SITES for rsaref aren't in 
> > the USA or Canada...
> 
> Yes... but eg the first one in the list already is... and fetch will try
> each of them, starting with the first. It would be too much user interaction
> for a port to require you to manually select a download location, esp if it
> means editing the Makefile, after setting USA_RESIDENT correctly.
> 
> Second, although you certainly can use RSAREF if you get it from a non-US
> source, but you should not, because it is an inferior implementation
> to the international version found eg on internat. So you should not use it
> if you do not have to... I have to go out on business now, but if no one has
> looked into this by the time I return, I will try to investigate things a
> bit, and, if necessary, submit a PR. 
> 
> -- 
> Regards:
> 
> Szilveszter ADAM
> Szeged University
> Szeged Hungary
> 
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Coleman Kane
President, 
UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu


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