Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:29:42 -0600 (CST) | From | aMeTH <> | Subject | Re: unusual startup messages |
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The way I understand it is that the cryptography (especially ip sec) is being written by people in charge of S/WAN in finland on a machine that a company has donated to them. No laws have been written to keep cryptography from being *imported*, which means that a person should be able to sit at a console in finland and write all of the stuff they want to w/o being touched by the feds. Yet another thread: if this machine will be present in finland for s/wan and ip sec, won't the kernel be able to be maintained there, also?
For more info on the S/WAN project check out: http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/swan.html
| shepard@ameth.org | | http://www.ameth.org | | Administrator, Ameth Technologies |
On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Oskar Pearson wrote: > > > And once Linus moves to the States? > > > > I wonder, is it illegal to code and compile encryption software in Finland > > while you are sitting in the US ;) > > > > Will they shoot him if he then downloads it? > > > > And more importantly: > > Will they refuse him a green card on the basis that he *might* do it? > > > > Oskar > > > > You've raised an interesting point: once Linus moses to the US, we won't > be able to integrate cryptography into the "standard" kernel if Linux is > maintained from the U.S. instead of Finland. > > Will the kernel be maintained outside the US? Or will crypto code be > distributed as patches to the kernel? If the kernel is maintained from the > US, how do we deal with the brain-damaged export restrictions? > > +-----------------------+----------------------------------+ > | Nathan Bryant | Resident Unix Geek | > | nathan@burgessinc.com | Burgess Business Solutions, Inc. | > +-----------------------+----------------------------------+ > >
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