Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:32:13 -0400 From: Dwight Tuinstra <tuinstra@clarkson.edu> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1-RELEASE will be tagged and done tonite, starting at 18:00 PDTT Message-ID: <397F128D.E4C36CD5@clarkson.edu> References: <10693.964597308@localhost> <200007261604.JAA20387@vashon.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote:
>
> I would lean more toward keeping the crypto code in separate
> distributions for a while longer. When we folded the cvs-crypto CVSup
> collection into cvs-all, I got an e-mail from one person who was quite
> upset because he assumed it meant that crypto wouldn't be in separate
> binary distributions any more. At least to him, it was important to
> keep the ability to be completely crypto-free.
>
> I don't feel so strongly about it myself, but I can see his point.
> For one thing, US crypto policy has been dictated 100% by politics
> for at least the past 10 years. It could easily be reversed yet
> again. (I don't think it will be reversed, but it is certainly a real
> possibility.) I would hate to see us throw out all the machinery we
> use to keep the crypto code separable, only to have to rebuild it
> again some time in the future.
I may well be wrong, but IIRC, there are some countries (France?)
where crypto in individuals' hands is still heavily restricted.
Even if I'm wrong about France, there might be others.
--Dwight Tuinstra
tuinstra@clarkson.edu
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