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	>>  - Encryption at the IP level (IPsec?)
> It is, and betas will appear soon for 2.2.* kernels.
> It will *never* be part of the standard kernel, because
> US Government thinks that encryption is equal to munitions..


This might not be quite right, for two reasons. Firstly, it would not be
hard to arrange for non-US users of Linux to get their IP encryption from a
non-US site. (Provided it was developed outside the US, it could be legally
imported to the US)

Secondly, the Evil Empire is planning to ship IPsec in Windows 2000. Unless
they provide a source-code level plug-in which can be shown to have been
developed outside the US, they will have to do some lobbying to get the law
changed, and that would benefit everybody (for once).

Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)








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