Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:29:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, (Christopher Petrilli) <petrilli@amber.org>, Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: VPN for FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2 Message-ID: <XFMail.990824082958.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199908240831.JAA91459@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian Somers wrote: > jkh@zippy.cdrom.com said: >> Bay Area region. We've already talked to our lawyer, he said it >> looked legit to him, and so we've been shipping crypto on our CDs for >> over a year now. I even announced it back then, to almost no audience >> reaction whatsoever. It seems that people like to get more excited >> about the prospect of something being closed than it being opened up. >> :) > > Shouldn't etc/cvsup/ (from the cvsup-mirror port) be updated to > reflect this ? I believe a lot of people don't know about the lack > of restrictions in SF, and the fact that cvsup-mirror gets the crypto > stuff from South Africa doesn't exactly drive the point home :-] No, I don't think that change should be made. It could put the individual mirror sites at legal risk. It's one thing for Walnut Creek CD-ROM to decide to assume that risk themselves; quite another thing to make it the default that would affect all the mirror sites. If somebody in Europe fetches the crypto stuff from a mirror in, say, Massachusetts, it's being exported from Massachusetts, not from the SF Bay Area where it is supposedly OK. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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