From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 19 15:16:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6788137BC50; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA41484; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:16:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Victor Salaman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: openssl in -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:53:00 PST." Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:16:35 -0800 Message-ID: <41481.951002195@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It already does this if you get your crypto from internat. US mirror sites > only carry the neutered (no-RSA) version, but internat carries RSA and > builds it conditional on USA_RESIDENT. And why don't the USA sites have the RSAREF version? I'm still not sure I understand the compartmentalization here. > 2) if you don't build with any sort of RSA (i.e. USA_RESIDENT == YES and > you don't have the rsaref package installed) then you don't get > include/rsa.h but get everything else "standard". It's this rsaref thing that's hanging me up. Why is it either on or off vs on from location A or on from location B? > See the packages at http://www.freebsd.org/~kris/openssl/ for a better > definition of "standard". Mark should be putting the international ones on > internat sometime (*nudge*). I still don't think that the packages are going to help us much here. > Did you ever hear back from the lawyers about whether (and how) we can > freely distribute openssl (and other stuff) from the US? Apart from that > it does just reduce to the case of keeping the patent lawyers happy by > keeping the patented code away from US people. The lawyers haven't been willing to say anything about this right now, citing too large of a caseload to even begin untangling the Clinton administration's current position. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message