Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 20:30:57 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <> | Subject | Re: Linux crypto? |
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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > They won't let me (or any other US citizen) make any edits to any of > > > the ipsec sources if it were to be added to the main tree. That's > > > unacceptable because it means that effectively I cannot maintain the > > > networking. > > > > well the _big_ thing the freeswan people are afraid of, is exactly the > > crypto laws in the us. > > They refuse to have a US citizen working on it. Which is reasonable given > the historu of US law, but until the US finishes outlawing computers in > a couple of years that is a problem.
well probably everything which isn't plain english written with a pen on white paper would be outlawed by then ;) ... but what about having all the crypto stuff in question beeing handled by modules (developed outside the USSA) and having the networking-related code in the kernel - could the hooks itself be a problem?
tm -- in some way i do, and in some way i don't.
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