Re: Linux crypto?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 May 2002 19:41:31 +0100 (BST)


> > They won't let me (or any other US citizen) make any edits to any of
> > the ipsec sources if it were to be added to the main tree. That's
> > unacceptable because it means that effectively I cannot maintain the
> > networking.
>
> well the _big_ thing the freeswan people are afraid of, is exactly the
> crypto laws in the us.

They refuse to have a US citizen working on it. Which is reasonable given
the historu of US law, but until the US finishes outlawing computers in
a couple of years that is a problem.

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