> On May 16, 2017, at 10:53 AM, Alexander Lesle <gro...@tierarzt-mueller.de>
> wrote:
>
> No NSA or U.S. laws pressure to code a backdoor for them.
As someone who worked in the shadow of such a threat for many years (Building
IPsec both at NRL, and pre-OpenSolaris Sun), the open-source nature of OmniOS
mitigates (at least partially) explicit pressure as a concern. Open-source
code has a strong (albeit not fully court-tested) 1st amendment defense -- see
here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
There may be good reasons to have an outside-the-US foundation, but backdoor
concerns is not one of them.
Dan
p.s. I have good 90s-crypto-wars stories.
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