From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 10:10:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.uunet.ca (mail5.uunet.ca [142.77.1.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A9437B82C for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail5.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <231098-27729>; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:11:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:10:04 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Clifton Royston Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable In-Reply-To: <20000229080637.F5108@lava.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, I think this could be done providing the host exporting the crypto is in a slightly more free country like Canada. I'm sure our Canadian users would be happy to aide in this, I'd be willing to host a crypto dist here in Montreal (on uunet). Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Clifton Royston wrote: : Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:06:37 -0500 : From: Clifton Royston : To: Matt Heckaman : Cc: Kenneth W Cochran , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org : Subject: Re: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable : : On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:30:50AM -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote: : ... : > The real question is, with the new US legislation, I've seen Microsoft : > claim that they can make high encryption available to anyone. Can we do : > the same? I claim absolutely no legal knowledge though, just something I : > saw on windows update regarding the high encryption package for win2k. : : My understanding is that it has to be provided as binary, not source, : which seems like kind of a show-stopper for open source OSes. Make : sense? I didn't think so. : : However... has anybody looked at the install procedure for OpenBSD : 2.6? It's really really slick. (Excuse me while I rave...) As part of : the installation procedure, if you configure the network, after : installing the first bunch of binaries off the CD, it brings the : network up (if it can) and prompts you for the correct legal source to : download the crypto modules from, depending on whether or not you're in : the US, then goes ahead and tries to fetch it for you. Once you've got : the crypto module downloaded, it finishes building/installing the : essential packages that depend on it, like OpenSSH. The out-of-box : install came up in the mode that it usually takes me a couple hours of : work to reach: sshd installed, running and accepting connections, and : nearly all other services disabled until you turn them on, so it's : actually safe to bring up on a network from the beginning. : : IMHO, this would be a great direction for FreeBSD to go in to solve : both the crypto dependency problem, and the initial insecurity problem. : -- Clifton : : -- : Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net : The named which can be named is not the Eternal named. : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message