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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com
Subject:   Re: 4.1-RELEASE will be tagged and done tonite, starting at 18:00 PDTT 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007270458280.90814-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200007261604.JAA20387@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, John Polstra wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, that's a good point (as well as for other countries with anti-crypto
laws). I'm changing my vote to leaving crypto a separate distribution but
selecting it by default in sysinstall :-)

Kris

--
In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.
    -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu>



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