From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 4 04:02:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23217 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 04:02:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.oeno.com (ns.oeno.com [194.100.99.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA23167 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 04:02:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@ns.oeno.com) Received: (qmail 25450 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Dec 1998 12:02:22 -0000 To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can we just come to a decision on IPv6 and IPSec? References: <9812032354.ZM6453@beatrice.rutgers.edu> <19981204122730.V18661@follo.net> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 04 Dec 1998 14:02:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: eivind@yes.no's message of "4 Dec 1998 13:28:29 +0200" Message-ID: <8667bs6rp0.fsf@not.oeno.com> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) writes: > Just to bring in another point: A group of people I'm part of just > initiated contact with the Norwegian Foreign Ministry (export > division) and got the new norwegian rules. They have a very > interesting twist: They disallow export of anything with stronger than > 56-bit crypto, but have a deliberate exception for 'software for > general consumption', with a definition of 'software for general > consumption' that seem to only fit Open Source (normal commercial > software does _not_ fit it). The way I read it, the article seemed to imply that such exemptions shall be eliminated. Norway is a participant in the Wassenaar arrangement (since 1995, I believe) and is thus implicitly one of the countries who have agreed (yesterday) to what was discussed in the article. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message