Jan-Benedict Glaw (jbglaw@lug-owl.de) writes:
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> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 03:59:48AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
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> Do you really think all that crypto stuff should be in a standard kernel?
> Even if there's no longer any problem to *export* it from Amerika, there
> might be problems *importing* it into more restrictive countries like
> China or France or so...
So? That's *their* problem, not ours...besides, the governments of China and
France can KMA for all the freedom they give their slaves...err, citizens...
> I think only the complete API should go in -- crypto modules should be
> in a separate tarball...
Wouldn't help - they'd just strip out the API. One of the very few advantages
of a closed source OS is that it becomes more difficult to strip out stuff
like the crypto API, etc. Not impossible - IMO, Microsoft wrote theirs
deliberately so that it could be easily removed - but if written properly, it
would become almost impossible to remove from the OS. And I don't mean
modularized, I mean snake the damn thing through the entire entire source
tree.
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