Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:48:08 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Roelof Osinga" <roelof@eboa.com> Cc: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Query on SSL / SSLeay Message-ID: <003a01c0d8da$1e423720$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3AF89D04.11DA450F@eboa.com>
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Yes, in the US you could legally download it from a remote site, but once obtained you could not export it. (despite the fact that it was available overseas already) There's some really dumb laws on the books in the US. For example, when they cracked DES, it's illegal to post the plans and code used to crack DES on a server on the Internet. However, it's not illegal to write a book and publish it with the same plans and code used to crack DES, and as a matter of fact, someone did just that. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Roelof Osinga >Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:28 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Kris Kennaway; Doug Young; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Query on SSL / SSLeay > > >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >> ... >> Originally, before OpenSSL, if you wanted SSL on Webmin >> you installed SSLeay-0.9.0b.tar.gz and the Perl interface >> to it, Net_SSLeay.pm-1.03.tar.gz. The problem here was that >> SSLeay needed the copyrighted RSA libes, and it was defined as >> a munition (rather silly) preventing export and some more >> silly nonsense. > >The way I remember it is that in that time on the SSLeay mailing list >was announced that SSLeay was to be superceded by OpenSSL. Which was >in fact an outgrowth of SSLeay. > >Legalities did play some role. But wasn't SSLeay non-US, Aussie I recall, >therefore not bound by any RSA patents? > >That was quite some time ago, though. > >Roelof > >-- >_______________________________________________________________________ >eBOAź est. 1982 >http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 >mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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