From owner-freebsd-security Mon Aug 23 13:39:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46DD14CC0 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA22922; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:38:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:38:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199908232038.QAA22922@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN for FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2 In-Reply-To: <199908231835.MAA40614@harmony.village.org> References: <4726.935379766@localhost> <199908231835.MAA40614@harmony.village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > InSecureBSD? I don't think so. FreeBSD takes security very > seriously... I think that since we're based in the bay area that > export of crypto is completely legal. Well, yes and no. You would do well to read the decision of the Appeals Court. The judges ruled that export controls on crypto SOURCE CODE were unconstitutional. They chose not to decide the question of whether export controls on binaries were also unconstitutional, although the way the decision was drawn suggests that the appeals court would decide the other way on that question if such a controversy arose. They found the district court's rationale unconvincing, and decided the case on the basis of a different legal theory. This is now good law in the Ninth Circuit. I do not believe the question has reached a similar level in any of the other circuits, so there may not be a national rule for some time. (I don't know if the government has yet appealed the Ninth Circuit's decision. If I were the government, I probably would not appeal this decision and instead wait for a case in another circuit where the facts were a bit more conducive.) At any rate, for those of us who do not live on the West Coast, export controls remain a fact of life. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message