From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 29 23:57:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from dor.zaural.ru (dor.zaural.ru [195.161.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3DE37B6F6 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from serg@dor.zaural.ru) Received: (from serg@localhost) by dor.zaural.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA41985; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:56:29 +0600 (YEKST) (envelope-from serg) From: "Sergey N. Voronkov" Message-Id: <200003300756.NAA41985@dor.zaural.ru> Subject: Re: OT: US encryption regulations and FreeBSD crypto programs In-Reply-To: <024501bf9a0d$93f93b60$0200000a@danco> from "Dan O'Connor" at "Mar 29, 2000 10:02:49 pm" To: "Dan O'Connor" Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:56:29 +0600 (YEKST) Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Software should be free, isn't it ? Including encryption software ? Ha ? > > No. Encyption software should not be free. The United States government is > doing it's best to protect its citizens from all you foreigners out there > who might want to attack us with strong encryption. Luckily, no one outside It is true not for US only. In Russia it is also so named FAPSI, which is controlling all encription (and buisness-encription) related software. > the U.S. knows how to build encryption software. You are wrong. Have you seen somewhat about GOST? ;-)))) It's a word about russian encription software. In other hand, I was reading one article about encription from UK, Finland etc... I don't remember where it was published, but it is. Good Luck! Serg N. Voronkov. P.S.: It was known try to get across US export licenses - JAR & ARJ (last versions) from R. Jung which are using GOST as a strong encription algorothm. This software can used inside US and most other countries without any low related restrictions... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message