Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:04:15 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: dk+@ua.net, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.970218134908.13693A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199702181501.QAA01275@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > According to Dmitry Kohmanyuk: > > In article <199702172225.XAA21874@ocean.campus.luth.se> you wrote: > [...] > > I think that just having main repository into a normal country can be a > > better option. Sadly, most normal countries have poorer Internet > > connectivity. > > Try scandinavia. As far as I know all the scandinavian countries have > very good internet connectivity. Ok... Sometimes the US link is not the best, > but then again, that is not scandinavia having a bad connection to internet. > It's US having a bad connection to the internet. ;-) > Meaning, if the US-Europe link sucks, it's neither sides fault, really. That's why OpenBSD is in Canada. The links from Canada to the US are just as fast as if I were in the US (for example, I have a T1 from rogers network services, who have multiple T3's straight off the Chicago NAP - my connection to the US is just as fast as any US T1..). Scandanavia is certainly a good choice for Europe. I think Germany's net connections are decent as well.. France's connections seem to really blow. > And wouldn't i be better to ahve the main repository outside US, and having > that mirrored into the machine that today is the main repository. That seems > more logical, no? I think that might not be a bad idea. The problem, of course, is who is willing to donate the bandwidth aside from Walnut Creek CDROM to hold the main freebsd distribution? I know I would have no problems donating machine time, but I can't afford to give away too much of my bandwidth - it's just too bloody expensive, and my profit margins are already next to zero! I would like to know how much bandwidth (approx.) is used by FreeBSD, so I've cc'ed this to www@freebsd.org for an opinion. And have all encryption things written outside the US, > so that it can be downloaded by everyone. As far as I understand, there's > no problem importing encryption stuff into the US, is it? It seems to me > that moving the main repository would be the easiest and most logical > solution, since we could add all the encryption we wanted, then, without > any problems. > Well, something I'm certainly willing to do is provide development account on a machine here in Canada - I'm checking into the laws in detail right now, but it might be a way for the crypto stuff to not be of US origin, which would make it exportable... (mail me privately with PGP to discuss this matter further). -Mark > /Mikael > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity." Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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