From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 20:24:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 20:24:42 -0400 Received: from ns0.auctionwatch.com ([66.7.130.2]:12293 "EHLO whitestar.auctionwatch.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 20:24:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 17:24:43 -0700 From: Petro To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux crypto? Message-ID: <20020529002443.GA27768@auctionwatch.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:55:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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? > The US types really want to make that possibility exist. FreeSWAN put a > huge amount of effort into their project. They don't want to make it > possible for the US government to screw them around as well. They just have to understand that if we want to screw them around, we will, and International Law Be Damned. -- My last cigarette was roughly 36 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes ago. YHBW