On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:08, ken keanon wrote: (snip)
> I roughly know that the US and non-US version got to do with encryption. > But what is the restriction? People in US or outside US can download either > version, right? In very general terms - as I understand it the restriction is the US ban on the export of 'encryption software'. (Phil Zimmerman ran into this with PGP. How Micro$oft get around it I don't know, maybe they've just got big lawyers and lots of influence. Maybe their apps are so patently insecure the spooks don't care ;). 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. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
