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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:52:01 -0500
From:      Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crypto in the kernel: where & how?
Message-ID:  <19991210145201.G3187@spirit.jaded.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912091815460.68649-100000@hub.freebsd.org>; from kris@hub.freebsd.org on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:24:47PM -0800
References:  <199912100101.RAA76788@bubba.whistle.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912091815460.68649-100000@hub.freebsd.org>

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| US sites mirror their crypto from freebsd.org, international ones from the
| international repository. The preferred path is for code to be committed
| by international people to the international repository, since it can be
| imported from there back into the US - if we can avoid it we shouldn't
| commit stuff to the US repository on its own since that prevents most of
| our users (by geography) from accessing it. However at least in the case
| of OpenSSL (which I'm planning to import into internat when I go home to
| australia next week :-) the two will have to be divergent due to the
| patent restrictions on RSA.

The RSA patent makes things a lot more difficult.  If we do add some crypto
into the kernel I suggest we use patent-free algorithms to start with.

-- 
Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org)
"Cure for global warming: One giant heatsink and dual fans!"


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