Date: 04 Dec 1998 14:02:18 +0200 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can we just come to a decision on IPv6 and IPSec? Message-ID: <8667bs6rp0.fsf@not.oeno.com> In-Reply-To: eivind@yes.no's message of "4 Dec 1998 13:28:29 %2B0200" References: <9812032354.ZM6453@beatrice.rutgers.edu> <19981204122730.V18661@follo.net>
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eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) writes: > Just to bring in another point: A group of people I'm part of just > initiated contact with the Norwegian Foreign Ministry (export > division) and got the new norwegian rules. They have a very > interesting twist: They disallow export of anything with stronger than > 56-bit crypto, but have a deliberate exception for 'software for > general consumption', with a definition of 'software for general > consumption' that seem to only fit Open Source (normal commercial > software does _not_ fit it). The way I read it, the article seemed to imply that such exemptions shall be eliminated. Norway is a participant in the Wassenaar arrangement (since 1995, I believe) and is thus implicitly one of the countries who have agreed (yesterday) to what was discussed in the article. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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