From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 9:32:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clarkson.edu (mail.clarkson.edu [128.153.4.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4169637BBB5 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tuinstra@clarkson.edu) Received: (qmail 20786 invoked by uid 0); 26 Jul 2000 16:32:16 -0000 Received: from sc-1-51.sc.clarkson.edu (HELO clarkson.edu) (128.153.23.206) by mail.clarkson.edu with SMTP; 26 Jul 2000 16:32:16 -0000 Message-ID: <397F128D.E4C36CD5@clarkson.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:32:13 -0400 From: Dwight Tuinstra X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1-RELEASE will be tagged and done tonite, starting at 18:00 PDTT References: <10693.964597308@localhost> <200007261604.JAA20387@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message