Re: Linux crypto?

Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher
2002-05-24T18:31:21Z

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
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