Re: Encryption issues

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Tim Thorpe wrote: > Something that we all need to be aware of as we implement encryption > algorithms is the rather unfriendly policies of the US regarding strong > crypto exports. I don't know where the PEAR CVS server is located, but > if it's in the USA then crypto packages that implement "strong" > algorithms will need to be hosted offshore. Is this still the case? Didn't they change anything that law recently (2 years ago) and it's only forbidden to export them to "rogue" countries (cuba, syria, iraq, germany/france *g* etc..). But IANAL and absolutely not sure. Anyway, the debian way to do this would be preferable anyway. Host the problematic packages on servers in countries, which have a known record of being more open to crypto laws (netherlands in the debian world, but that can't be the only one, can it ?) chregu > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > I'm not a FreeBSD snob, my OS is just better than yours. ;^) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > -- nam...christian stocker adr...pflanzschulstr. 31, ch-8004 zurich pho...+41 43 317 9984 www...http://blog.bitflux.ch mob...+41 76 561 8860 ema...chregu@phant.ch wor...+41 1 240 5670 gpg...0x5CE1DECB