> It already does this if you get your crypto from internat. US mirror sites
> only carry the neutered (no-RSA) version, but internat carries RSA and
> builds it conditional on USA_RESIDENT.
And why don't the USA sites have the RSAREF version? I'm still not
sure I understand the compartmentalization here.
> 2) if you don't build with any sort of RSA (i.e. USA_RESIDENT == YES and
> you don't have the rsaref package installed) then you don't get
> include/rsa.h but get everything else "standard".
It's this rsaref thing that's hanging me up. Why is it either on
or off vs on from location A or on from location B?
> See the packages at http://www.freebsd.org/~kris/openssl/ for a better
> definition of "standard". Mark should be putting the international ones on
> internat sometime (*nudge*).
I still don't think that the packages are going to help us much here.
> Did you ever hear back from the lawyers about whether (and how) we can
> freely distribute openssl (and other stuff) from the US? Apart from that
> it does just reduce to the case of keeping the patent lawyers happy by
> keeping the patented code away from US people.
The lawyers haven't been willing to say anything about this right now,
citing too large of a caseload to even begin untangling the Clinton
administration's current position.
- Jordan
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