Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:12:19 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: international crypto laws Message-ID: <201010151412.o9FECJN5053082@fire.js.berklix.net>
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To quote 8.1-RELEASE/src/crypto/README ... The separation between src/contrib and src/crypto is the result of an old USA law, which made these sources export controlled, so they had to be kept separate. As international crypto laws are ever changing play things of ignorant politicians, & a pain in the orifice to track, & as FreeBSD is an international project, it's not just USA law that can be problematic. We could outsource disinterest in the wold's mess of crypto laws, by adding a URL to this: http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/ Crypto Law Survey indexed by country Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 spam formats. Top posting cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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