From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 20:46:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net (dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net [206.196.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FC1137BF9B for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wolpert@methodsystems.com) Received: (qmail 25933 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2000 03:46:40 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 25917 invoked by uid 0); 2 Aug 2000 03:46:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO osti.methodsystems.com) (63.227.49.195) by dnvrpop2.dnvr.uswest.net with SMTP; 2 Aug 2000 03:46:40 -0000 Content-Length: 1703 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:46:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Edward Wolpert To: Ilia Chipitsine Subject: RE: enlight me about US laws, please ! Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 01-Aug-00 Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > as far as I understand, not any cryptographic tool (software including) > may be exported from USA. Sorta... actually, they have now (recently) made it so some tools can be exported from the USA... > that's why FreeBSD has two different versions of crypto code, right ?! The original reason... > on the other hand Open{BSD,SSH,SSL} has only one version, no ? Because they are only distrubuted from outside the USA, like Canada, etc. > may crypto stuff be _imported_ to the USA ??? > if so, why to have TWO version, not ONE ?! Yes. If FreeBSD was only distrubuted from outside the USA, then there would be one version. BUT... RSA is patented in the USA (until Sept 20) so USA versions of FreeBSD that use the RSA algorythim (like OpenSSH and OpenSSL), regardless of if they originated from the USA or not, require rsaref, where international (non-usa) version can use non-rsaref libraries. While we're on the topic.... FreeBSD folks: I've been using rsaref for years... any ideas on the diffs between rsaref and the 'real' RSA libs? (Perhaps I should know this one....) Virtually, | Open/Web Systems Architect Edward Wolpert | 4eb8 4e75 | "Java. It's not just for ___________________________________________/ breakfast anymore. " -anon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBOYeZoK2tQW/xJRRFAQE/5wL7BWi7NqvqpPpcCayoDv/KozO+pD/YVaFc TAkJGpybZWTWYIeb8D11nio3ZSXqXmlvYjAh1zP6ZiLwKOIafHFkViosU8oj9GdA Y5SrMCNDrZkIQowC7dvBI/lauomHKIph =WzQD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message