From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 30 8:33: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from loki.ideaglobal.com (loki.ideaglobal.com [194.36.20.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B06637B820 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:33:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by loki.ideaglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA76073; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:38:00 GMT (envelope-from kiril) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <200003301638.QAA76073@loki.ideaglobal.com> Subject: Re: OT: US encryption regulations and FreeBSD crypto programs In-Reply-To: <200003300756.NAA41985@dor.zaural.ru> from "Sergey N. Voronkov" at "Mar 30, 2000 1:56:29 pm" To: serg@dor.zaural.ru (Sergey N. Voronkov) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:38:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dan@mostgraveconcern.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (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 Seryozha, on tolyko shutil .... > > >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... -- Kiril Mitev, IT Operations Mgr, London IDEAglobal.com Standard Corporate Disclaimer applies, see http://www.ideaglobal.com/email-disclaimer.html for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message