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> If crypto is outlawed only outlaws will have crypto
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Judging from your signature, I think you can easily guess the answer. :)
Perhaps something along these lines is worth putting in the FAQ.
Q: I need encryption and steganography. Why isn't it in the kernel?
A: In France and Russia, strong encryption is essentially illegal:
according to http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/jenc8bjk.htm, using it
there requires a license which is seldom granted. The United States has
cumbersome restrictions on exporting such software (it's considered a
"munition"--see http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/). Having
these features in the standard kernel would therefore cause great
inconvenience to people in those countries. However, separate programs
and patches to the kernel are available at
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/,
http://fractal.mta.ca/pub/crypto/aem/ (*),
http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/swan.html,
http://www.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html,
http://www.quick.com.au/ftp/pub/sjg/, http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/,
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/, and other places.
(*) Andrew Mileski's site was down when I tried it just now, so perhaps
this is out of date.
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Trevor Johnson
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