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My understanding is that the law restricts U.S. citizens from exporting certain types of cryptographic software. As a non-US national, I believe you have a moral responsibility to thumb your nose at US law. What might concern you is Spanish law regarding the use/import of cryptography. In any case, security updates are usually bug-fixes, not "security software", per se. Chris Caldwell Information Systems Coordinator, Enterprise Systems Information Systems and Services, The George Washington University [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +1 202.994.4674 (w) | +1 202.409.0878 (c) http://hippocrates.tops.gwu.edu | GPG key ID: 0xE52D0BE8 -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Richard Cook On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alberto Cortés wrote: > On http://security.debian.org/ it can be read: > > > You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This > > requires a line such as > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free > > Since I am not living in the US, and some security updates deals with > cryptographic software, I understand that it will be illegal for me > downloading these updates from outside of the USA. > > In other words, is http://security.debian.org/ located outside the > US?. > > > > -- > Alberto Cortés Martín | Ing. en Telecomunicación > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Universidad Carlos III > Jabber y MSN: alcortes43 | Madrid > ICQ#: 101088159 | Spain > url: http://montoya.aig.uc3m.es/~acortes/index.html > > 1A8B 0FE6 2094 8E48 38A2 7785 03CD 07CD 6CA4 E242 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9pKGo1YKAfuUtC+gRAtvwAJ46YE1v7dMqPqGnOGEmQ+WRG3gwcQCgm+nQ +/WmVX/hmQbV/xBR9MA8xM8= =je9M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
