Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:18:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com, Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New install - I want DES. Message-ID: <19981129161844.B456@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981129001146.283A-100000@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org>; from Spike Gronim on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:12:43AM -0500 References: <3660D401.11D9C0C5@tpgi.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981129001146.283A-100000@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Sunday, 29 November 1998 at 0:12:43 -0500, Spike Gronim wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Had our FreeBSD box running just dandy for over a year now in my >> high school. Over the school holidays I'm planning to wack in an >> extra disk, a bit more memory, etc, so I'll probably do a complete >> reinstall using the 3.0 disks when they arrive. >> >> I want this install to use DES rather than MD5, mainly because >> I suspect it is why I can't get mailman to work correctly >> (mailman is a perl based http interface to email). >> >> But I'm outside of the US. I've had a look in the handbook and >> can't find much help. > > I believe the US Government forbids by law the export of DES encryption > technologies, so I think you won't be able to (legally) get hold of it. Why not? The US Government can't stop people from writing this code outside the USA, and that's what happened. Jim Mock has already pointed to the correct place. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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