From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 11:16:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [199.222.42.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45AB437BC7E for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from localhost (1852 bytes) by malasada.lava.net via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:16:35 -1000 (HST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #3 built 1999-Dec-7) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:16:35 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: EKR Cc: Matt Heckaman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable Message-ID: <20000229091635.A23590@lava.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:20:53AM -0800, EKR wrote: > Matt Heckaman writes: > > > 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). > The US government has essentially lifted all crypto export controls > on Open Source software. There's no longer any problem with > exporting strong crypto. > > All that is required is that you provide BXA a pointer to the > web site when the crypto is first posted. But isn't there a US patent issue (though it might expire later this year, I believe) preventing distributing or using RSA code inside the US without a license, unless you use RSA's approved reference version? And my understanding is that the latter has various legal conditions attached and so is undesirable for anybody outside the US. If I understand their rules, I'm stretching it a bit by using from my home machine to work, for instance. -- 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