cr writes: > In very general terms - as I understand it the restriction is the US ban > on the export of 'encryption software'.
That was dropped years ago. > How Micro$oft get around it I don't know, maybe they've just got big > lawyers and lots of influence. They have to get licenses in advance of exporting crypto (though the licenses are trivially easy to get). > So, to avoid the spooks from throwing some Debian mirror's owner into > jail for 50,000 years for including some app. with encryption built in, > such apps are only carried on mirrors outside the US. Crypto has been in Main and carried on US mirrors for years. The only requirement now is that when a new crypto program is uploaded a copy of the source must be emailed to the Commerce Dept. I believe that the only things left in non-us are programs that infringe US patents. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
