Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:03:14 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@mindstep.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT Message-ID: <v04220805b4aa66b48a40@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001180952580.54032-100000@hub.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001180952580.54032-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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At 9:58 AM -0800 2000/1/18, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I don't know much about the restrictions of other countries. If the > current crypto policies were a legal problem for someone else we can > surely change them to suit, but I'd rather not complicate things even more > than they are already without a reason.. Russia and France both are highly crypto-unfriendly, in that you are not allowed to use any crypto whatsoever unless it has been explicitly approved by the government. Since their lists of what's been "approved" (read: cracked) by the government may differ, we're starting to get into some issues here where I think a "CRYPTO_COUNTRY" variable would make a lot of sense, and then we could derive appropriate "RSA" and "USA_RESIDENT" variables from them. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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