From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 06:32:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA14864 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 06:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA14854 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 06:31:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA27246; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:24:18 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199602201424.QAA27246@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Q: exportable DES library & "DES How To" for 2.1-STABLE To: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:24:18 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9602201311.AA19222@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> from "marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at" at Feb 20, 96 02:11:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Well we (the CSIR where ftp.internat.freebsd.org is hosted) are busy > > negotiating a new link (with guaranteed bandwidth for us) to the USA. > > If everything works out, we should have it within the next month or so. > > Hopefully things will be better then. > > Erm, will this not allow some government bozo to claim that the data, > in transit from .za to .at, for instance, did go through .us, and is > therefore in violation to some nasty export codes? > > I know I'm being paranoid, but so would seem to be some governments, too. > The way it is now, we are connected to the SA-uninet which is connected to USA. So it isn't much different. People accessing it from outside SA will normally go through USA. I think if the data is not stored there, it isn't a problem. But I'm not a lawyer! John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za