On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:46:21PM +0100, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > Hi all > > > There is one point to consider with this: In some countries it is not allowed > to > use strong cryptography (France, China and a few others as far as I know) > under
AFAIK France has lifted the restriction two years ago (or so) > all conditions and there are countries for which exports from the US are still > restricted (Iran, Irak, .....). We would have to deal with these special > situations, but I think it is time to change. At the moment, the default > installation does not include any cryptographic code, which I consider to be > very weak. In my opinion, every installation of Debian should include at least > ssh instead of telnetd and every server daemon (pop3, imap, smtp, ftp, http, > ....) should include SSL support by default. Even when doing that it will > take > some time for all the clients to get upgraded to use the crypto services, but > it > is definitely a step in the right direction. > I agree. But, isn't the US allowing the export just a trial, and not definitive yet? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
