From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 23:23:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-119.telepath.com [216.14.0.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B5CC37B683 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 82778 invoked by uid 100); 2 Aug 2000 06:22:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14727.48701.947948.146198@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 01:22:53 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: enlight me about US laws, please ! In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Ilia Chipitsine > as far as I understand, not any cryptographic tool (software including) > may be exported from USA. Actually, the law requires you to get an export license for cryptographic tools; the same one you need to export tanks, etc. The laws are in flux as there are lots of people trying to change them (in both directions). > that's why FreeBSD has two different versions of crypto code, right ?! This is no longer due to the crypto laws. Either the appropriate license exists, or a change in the laws made it unnecessary. However, there are still two versions of the RSA code. That's because the patent laws are different in the US from everywhere else, so the RSA algorithm is patented in the US but not elsewhere. So there is a version of RSA that's legal everywhere but the US, and one that's legal (for non-commercial uses) in the US. > on the other hand Open{BSD,SSH,SSL} has only one version, no ? They are in Canada, which means they don't have those problems. > may crypto stuff be _imported_ to the USA ??? > if so, why to have TWO version, not ONE ?! Because the crypto laws apply (applied?) even if the sources started outside the US. It was crazy, but I couldn't ftp ssl sources from outside the US, compile them on FreeBSD, and then export them :-(.