From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 14 20:59:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA13119 for security-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:59:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ingenieria ([168.176.15.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA13028 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co by ingenieria (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA12284; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 23:59:18 +0600 Message-ID: <328C221D.44A4@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 23:56:13 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." Reply-To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Secure RPC revisited References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Petri Riihikallio wrote: > > It appears to be difficult to fully obey the U.S. law when exporting any > computer product. If you ask any official opinion it is probably negative just > to be on the safe side. The opposite is to try your luck. With a free product > that is not reasonable. The law is at fault, but it is the most constant part > of this equation. > Well, there´s another solution, you can telnet to Canada, or another part of the free world, and write your encryption there. Technically speaking you are not exporting the software, but then Walnut Creek, Netscape, IBM and the others should follow OpenBSD and move their headquarters to Canada. Is it posible to have a Blue Ribbon Campaign part II, to liberate free software from "US military masterminds"? I´m sure many US companies are having the same problem with their software and would support such a campaign. Pedro. > -- > Petri.Riihikallio@hut.fi