Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:24:18 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: exportable DES library & "DES How To" for 2.1-STABLE Message-ID: <199602201424.QAA27246@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <9602201311.AA19222@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> from "marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at" at Feb 20, 96 02:11:11 pm
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> > Well we (the CSIR where ftp.internat.freebsd.org is hosted) are busy > > negotiating a new link (with guaranteed bandwidth for us) to the USA. > > If everything works out, we should have it within the next month or so. > > Hopefully things will be better then. > > Erm, will this not allow some government bozo to claim that the data, > in transit from .za to .at, for instance, did go through .us, and is > therefore in violation to some nasty export codes? > > I know I'm being paranoid, but so would seem to be some governments, too. > The way it is now, we are connected to the SA-uninet which is connected to USA. So it isn't much different. People accessing it from outside SA will normally go through USA. I think if the data is not stored there, it isn't a problem. But I'm not a lawyer! John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
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