From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 27 17:50:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20336 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20323 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:50:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au) Received: (from ncb05@localhost) by banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id KAA24284; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:50:04 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:50:03 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: Scott Mitchell cc: Lanny Baron , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh in canada. In-Reply-To: <19980927181616.40612@goatsucker.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Scott Mitchell wrote: [snip] > Well, ssh has the ability to use strong encryption which, because it might > be used by pornographers, terrorists, drug dealers, etc. to cover up their > nefarious activites, is illegal to export from the US (that somehow > includes Canada for the purposes of this particular law). Clearly we Umm, why feel the need to export it? It's *developed* OUTSIDE the bloody US! And if we remember those silly laws correctly, it's legal to IMPORT cryptographic software, it's just illegal to export it. Goto http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh <-- SSH Homepage And if you're dead keen on using RSAREF with ssh, then you can probably grab it from ftp.replay.com, or ftp.hackic.nl. > foreigners aren't capable of writing an encryption algorithm between us and > there are no pornographers, terrorists or drug dealers in the USA, so > everything is fine. I mean, *obviously* making something illegal will stop > criminals from using it. [snip] Nick -- Email: ncb@poboxes.com - http://www.poboxes.com/ncb Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A "When in doubt, ask someone wiser than yourself..." -unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message