On Thursday 14 August 2003 21:44, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > Probably a lot sooner than that. The only reason why the CryptoAPI is > not in the standard Linux kernel is because of those f--king export > laws.
that's probably why RedHat doesn't have it. U.S. company, have to comply with US export laws that classify cryptography as munitions. US implementation of their export laws has relaxed recently (since around 1999, 2000) but perhaps they aren't relaxed all the way yet. it's actually confusing that SuSe and Mandrake (european companies) can ship with encryption. i was under the impression that most european countries were even more strict (and actually strange) about encryption. but it seems that they feel free to ship with encryption support. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph an xcdngl nntrstng jrnl Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees. Gen Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, last words. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
