Re: Linux crypto?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 May 2002 19:55:38 +0100 (BST)


> well probably everything which isn't plain english written with a pen
> on white paper would be outlawed by then ;)
> ... but what about having all the crypto stuff in question beeing handled
> by modules (developed outside the USSA) and having the networking-related
> code in the kernel - could the hooks itself be a problem?

The US types really want to make that possibility exist. FreeSWAN put a
huge amount of effort into their project. They don't want to make it
possible for the US government to screw them around as well.
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