Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:35:28 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions? |
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> According to > http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557828890-57c. > the US will relax its crypto restrictions to a point where exporting > DES is legal. This potentially means that a lot of stuff that hasn't > been in the kernel now could be integrated.
If you don't want French people using Linux...
> Is anybody aware of the exact nature of the policy change? What about > hooks for stronger crypto?
I believe that the "generic block transform" hooks[1] are slated for 2.3, but not before someone takes responsibility for the loop device.
Matthew.
[1] For compression, your honour... :)
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