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    SubjectRe: Encrypted filesystem under Linux.
    matthew tebbens wrote:
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    > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > > Forgive me if this is a FAQ, however I did read through the FAQ and it
    > > > seems a bit dated on the subject.
    > >
    > > The VPN mini-howto at sunsite (which will hopefully be a full-blown HOWTO
    > > soon, to be co-authored by yours truly). Is that the one your talking
    > > about?
    > >
    > > > Are there plans to incorporate an encrypted file system into the kernel?
    > >
    > > No, as with other forms of encryption, due to US government regulations..
    >
    > So Linux falls under US government regulations !?

    Anything in the USA falls under US government regulations. Even if it is
    only there temporarily.

    > People should be able to keep information private. For the first time
    > computers and encryption software can do that, and the US government
    > is scared.


    Actually, they're probably just irritated. Governments get scared about
    personal scandals, and suchlike things..but not about the sort of things
    people normally attribute them to being scared of.

    > Do people have the right to secure information ? I think so.
    > Hopefully others will.

    A US citizen has the rights that are listed in the US constitution. No
    more, no less. They are rights because the constitution says so. If it
    said they were priveleges, they would be priveleges instead. But there
    you go. They're rights. If it's in there, you have a right to it. If
    it's not, then you don't. That's the simple legal basics. (There's
    sections later that allow rights to be modified..otherwise you wouldn't
    have amendments, and that's a bit of a different wrangle).

    Is there a right to privacy in the US constitution? For that matter is
    there any country other than the US that has freedom of speech in it's
    bill of rights? Don't reply back to the list. We're way offtopic.


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    > Matthew Tebbens
    >
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    Did you read the documentation AND the FAQ?
    If not, I'll probably still answer your question, but my patience will
    be limited, and you take the risk of sarcasm and ridicule.

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