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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:10:29 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Adrian Penisoara <ady@ady.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 4.1-RELEASE & OpenSSH for the "outsiders" ? 
Message-ID:  <79571.966568229@localhost>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:08:57 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008171108290.270-100000@cy0-0-async-00.warpnet.ro> 

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Actually, legally you *can* install the crypto distribution now.  You
just want to use the rsa-intl bits rather than the US-only rsaref port
to supply ssh with RSA authentication if you wish to use that
(otherwise I believe you can use IDEA).

- Jordan

> Hi,
> 
>   I recently installed two systems with 4.1-RELEASE and had the unpleasant
> suprise of not finding ssh & sshd installed out of the box on them. I
> learnt that these utilities (and other crypto-related stuff) are only
> found in the CRYPTO distribution set which, due to the fact that I live in
> Europe, I legally can't install. Later I cvsupped and rebuilt the system
> to 4.1-STABLE with USA_RESIDENT=NO and it installed the ssh utilities.
> 
>   Now I have a few questions:
> 
>  * What is the legal and correct way to have the ssh and crypto related
>    stuff installed somewhat "out of the box" (meaning not to have to
>    build them from sources) ?
> 
>  * Isn't this situation kind of embarrasing for the "outside of USA and
>    Canada" people ? Isn't there a nicer way to please us too, like having
>    weak cryto stuff either built in the base system or in a separate
>    distribution set ?
> 
>  * Is this going to happen until 4.2-RELEASE will be out ?
> 
>  Thank you very much,
>  Ady (@ady.ro)
> 



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