From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 10 11:52:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (spirit.jaded.net [216.94.113.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C493C15218; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:48:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA03502; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:52:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:52:01 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Archie Cobbs , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crypto in the kernel: where & how? Message-ID: <19991210145201.G3187@spirit.jaded.net> References: <199912100101.RAA76788@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@hub.freebsd.org on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:24:47PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | 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!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message