This may be a problem if a distro has to dumb down
their security based on their host country's
individual policies. I don't feel comfortable with
dumbed down security just because of French Laws.

--- Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue Jan 08, 2002 at 07:21:48PM +0100, Oden
> Eriksson wrote:
> 
> > > Name        : openssl                     
> Relocations: (not relocateable)
> > > Version     : 0.9.6b                           
> Vendor: MandrakeSoft
> > > Release     : 5mdk                         
> Build Date: Tue Jan  8 17:05:44
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > - 2 patches to follow French policy:
> > >   - Patch5: Limit SSL ciphers available to 128
> bits
> > >   - Patch6: Temptatively disable triple-key
> triple DES but keep
> > >     double-key triple DES
> > 
> > Will there be a full version somewhere?
> 
> What would be ideal is a build command like --with
> fullcipher or
> something in the package so someone outside of
> France could just do
> "rpm --rebuild --with fullcipher openssl*src.rpm".
> 
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