or Mandrake could have the dumbed down crypto in France, and the proper crypto everywhere else. Maybe make it depend on locales or something like time zone/city or something like that. --- Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat Jan 12, 2002 at 11:00:14PM -0800, SI > Reasoning wrote: > > > 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. > > Unfortunately, according to the law, there isn't > much we can do about > it, unless we do the crypto mirror thing again. > However, since rpm is > a little more advanced, it should be simplicity to > add a --with > fullcipher (or whatever) switch to allow us to > rebuild it with full > strength crypto. That wouldn't be illegal. > > I'm sure that MandrakeSoft doesn't feel comfortable > violating French > laws either, and since we are likely to get sued if > we do break the > law, the better scenario is to obey the law even if > it stinks. > > That said, there are always ways to get around > things, and making a > conditional rebuild switch is one of them (the > crypto mirrors are > another). > > -- > MandrakeSoft Security, OpenPGP key available on > www.keyserver.net > 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 > D0E5 FE6F 2AFD > > Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 3 days 1 > hour 49 minutes. >
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