Re: FreeSWAN & US export controls

2001-12-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, John Gilmore wrote: > NSA's export controls. We overturned them by a pretty thin margin. > The government managed to maneuver such that no binding precedents > were set: if they unilaterally change the regulations tomorrow to > block the export of public domain crypto, they

Re: FreeSWAN & US export controls

2001-12-10 Thread John Gilmore
Anonymous said: > The major problem that holds back the development of FreeS/WAN is > with its management. [Management that cares more about sitting on > its pulpit, than getting useful software into the hands of people.] > Unless things have changed recently, they still won't accept > contributi

FW: FreeSWAN Release 1.93 ships!

2001-12-10 Thread Lucky Green
While I am too far from the process to offer comment to the contents of the post below, the last paragraph of the post in some bizarre way did help crystallize a thought that I knew had been nagging in the back of my mind for months, perhaps as much of a year, but that I just could not quite bring

RE: FreeSWAN Release 1.93 ships!

2001-12-10 Thread Anonymous
On Sunday 09 December 2001 07:32 pm, Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The big question is: will FreeS/WAN latest release after some 4 or 5 > years of development finally both compile and install cleanly on > current versions of Red Hat Linux, FreeS/WAN's purported target > platform? Th

Re: Japan Broke U.S. Code Before Pearl Harbor, Researcher Finds

2001-12-10 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 10:50 PM -0800 12/8/01, Paul Krumviede wrote: >while not really cryptography related, i'd suggest a reading of the chapter >"prologue to pearl harbor" of herbert bix's "hirohito and the making of >modern japan" before taking seriously anything other than the finding that the >japanese may have

Re: FreeSWAN Release 1.93 ships!

2001-12-10 Thread Derek Atkins
Note that to compile FreeS/WAN on Red Hat using the Red Hat kernel-source RPM you need to: rm include/linux/modules/*.ver before you 'make dep'. Otherwise you get module version brokenness. -derek "Lucky Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The big question is: will FreeS/WAN latest re

Customer Acts Odd? U.S. Wants to Know

2001-12-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/national/10CUST.html?searchpv=nytToday&pagewanted=print December 10, 2001 THE INVESTIGATION Customer Acts Odd? U.S. Wants to Know By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - Federal agents are planning to fan out across the country this week in an effort to recr

Crypto Informants

2001-12-10 Thread John Young
According to the New York Times today the US Customs Service will be asking businesses to report "suspicious" customer requests for a range of threatening technologies, including "encryption devices," for shipping abroad. For publication we'd like to hear of examples of Customs (or government