From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 11: 4:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tank.skynet.be (tank.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6652F15132; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:04:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by tank.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id UAA14857; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:04:16 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:03:14 +0100 To: Kris Kennaway , Patrick Bihan-Faou From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, 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