From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 12:10:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B2216A404 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:10:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gdt@ir.bbn.com) Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com (fnord.ir.bbn.com [192.1.100.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480CD43D6E for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:10:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gdt@ir.bbn.com) Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id 9A67253E4; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:10:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Troxel To: Tom References: <20060412112332.L47470@evil.minions.com> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:10:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060412112332.L47470@evil.minions.com> (bifrost@minions.com's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:32:40 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Export Restrictions X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:10:19 -0000 Tom writes: > I work for a company that builds an appliance based on FreeBSD (4.X) > and we've just had our first question come up about exporting the > appliance out of the US (specifically the EU). > Since FreeBSD uses OpenSSL/OpenSSH, I'm under the impression that we > need to gut out anything higher than 56bit (3DES/etc) crypto out of it. > I would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right > direction on this :) Find a good lawyer familiar with export control issues - the rules are complicated. -- Greg Troxel