Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:53:53 +0100 (WEST) | From | "Manuel J. Galan" <> | Subject | Re: CIPE - Encrypted IP Encapsulation |
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On 03-Aug-98 Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: [...] > The important part of this is to get the infrastructure right. A > patch distributed "together" with the normal kernel would be immensely > more useful than an obscure patch distributed from some far-away > place. What I was thinking was to make a primary international site > that mirrors ftp.kernel.org an "overlays" a patch-crypto-x.y.z.gz file > in the v2.{0,1} catalogs. This is not a new idea, but similar to the > way glibc distributes glibc-crypt "separately". If the infrastructure > is right, it would be a no-brainer for international sites to switch > from mirroring ftp.kernel.org to mirroring the international site. > > I'd like to hear some feedback on this. If there is positive > interest, I'll use some time to make this happen. > > astor > > -- > Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway > http://www.guardian.no/
Something alike is IMHO _essentially required_ right now if we pretend to make Linux a serious OS.
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