On Sundayen den 13 January 2002 08.15, guran wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2002 6:56 am, Vincent Danen 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".
>
> I think that Mdk should have to use a sticker to every package sold,
> telling the buyer of their product that it is made a criple because of
> French law.
>
> Thanks to Oden, for pointing this out to me.

It's not unique to Mandrake, Redhat has also a crippled openssl package, I 
think they also remove(d?) RSA from it. But since the RSA patent expired I 
don't know the current status of the Redhat openssl package.

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