Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions?

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:35:28 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:

> According to
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557828890-57c.
> the US will relax its crypto restrictions to a point where exporting
> DES is legal. This potentially means that a lot of stuff that hasn't
> been in the kernel now could be integrated.

If you don't want French people using Linux...

> Is anybody aware of the exact nature of the policy change? What about
> hooks for stronger crypto?

I believe that the "generic block transform" hooks[1] are slated for 2.3,
but not before someone takes responsibility for the loop device.

Matthew.

[1] For compression, your honour... :)

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