Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:06:07 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can we just come to a decision on IPv6 and IPSec? Message-ID: <19981204130607.W18661@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <8667bs6rp0.fsf@not.oeno.com>; from Ville-Pertti Keinonen on Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 02:02:18PM %2B0200 References: <9812032354.ZM6453@beatrice.rutgers.edu> <19981204122730.V18661@follo.net> <8667bs6rp0.fsf@not.oeno.com>
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On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 02:02:18PM +0200, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > 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. My description is of the NEW regulations. The ones being introduced after the Wassenaar changes yesterday. We talked to the exports commission this morning. Norway has not had any restrictions on crypto export before. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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