On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 03:36:39PM +0100, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
> Andrew Pam wrote :
> > I've been porting the "International (crypto) Kernel Patch" for the Linux
> > 2.2 kernels from www.kerneli.org to the 2.3 development kernels. You can
> > find the patches against kernel 2.3 at http://www.sericyb.com.au/ and I
> > hope that as a result of the new US regulations on crypto export that take
> > effect today this can be included in the official kernels soon.
>
> Are you sure that those new regulations take effect today ?
Actually they apparently took effect on Wednesday January 12:
http://204.193.246.62/public.nsf/docs/60D6B47456BB389F852568640078B6C0
Note this paragraph:
: Global Exports of Unrestricted Encryption Source Code
:
: Encryption source code which is available to the public and which is
: not subject to an express agreement for the payment of a licensing fee
: or royalty for commercial production or sale of any product developed
: with the source code may be exported under a license exception without
: a technical review. The exporter must submit to the Bureau of Export
: Administration a copy of the source code, or a written notification of
: its Internet location, by the time of export. Foreign products made with
: the unrestricted source code do not require review and classification by
: the U.S. Government for reexport. This license exception should apply
: to exports of most "open source" software.
> Also the EFF, EPIC and some other organisations issued a press
> release that says that everything is not so pink as one might think
> on first look.
> The release is avaliable at www.eff.org .
http://www.eff.org/11300_crypto_release.html to be precise.
While I agree with the EFF position that there are still significant
problems with the export regulations and that further changes are
desirable, I believe that the new regulations now in place already permit
encryption to be included in the standard Linux kernels as I suggested.
Share and enjoy the crypto,
*** Xanni ***
-- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Technology Manager, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/sc/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics P.O. Box 26, East Melbourne VIC 8002 Australia Phone +61 3 9419-2989- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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