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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 96 14:11:11 MET
From:      marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at
To:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Q: exportable DES library & "DES How To" for 2.1-STABLE
Message-ID:  <9602201311.AA19222@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at>
In-Reply-To: <199602200740.JAA23648@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>; from "John Hay" at Feb 20, 96 9:40 am

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> > 
> > 1. The definitive site for international bits is ftp.internat.freebsd.org
> >    (though it could really use some mirrors - South Africa is often
> >    unreachable).
> > 
> Well we (the CSIR where ftp.internat.freebsd.org is hosted) are busy
> negotiating a new link (with guaranteed bandwidth for us) to the USA.
> If everything works out, we should have it within the next month or so.
> Hopefully things will be better then.

Erm, will this not allow some government bozo to claim that the data,
in transit from .za to .at, for instance, did go through .us, and is
therefore in violation to some nasty export codes?

I know I'm being paranoid, but so would seem to be some governments, too.

/Alby

> John
> -- 
> John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za




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