From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 12 18:23:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F0314CF9 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA62690; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 03:01:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 03:01:01 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001130201.DAA62690@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Encryption rules changes coming up - win for open source X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: <85j9fc$1mso$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > The last two paragraphs are the most relevant to us. > > http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-encryption.html Hmm. These paragraphs don't sound that nice: [...] complex restrictions still affect programrs and others who want to exchange programs or source code to write programs. [...] ``The bad news is, if you want to send an encryption program outside of the United States, you still need to hire a lawyer,'' Davidson added. But then, at the end: People posting ``open source'' programs would be required to send the code, or a Web site address where the code was displayed, to the government. Basically, does this mean something like tar cf - /usr/src/crypto | mail president@whitehouse.gov ? :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message