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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:28:41 +0200
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
To: Marc Baudoin <babafou@babafou.eu.org>
Cc: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>,
        netbsd-advocacy <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Some ideas for advocacy
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In-Reply-To: <19980916110410.A27958@agm-ita.agm-ita.ensta.fr>; from Marc Baudoin on Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 11:04:10AM +0200

On Sep 16, Marc Baudoin wrote
> Sorry, but the country of human rights have very restrictive laws
> about cryptography.  I'm afraid all we would be able to get is a CD
> with no crypto code at all (except the crypt() code used for
> password encryption, which is supposed to be OK).
> 

I'm not sure what is prohibited in france: install crypto software, or
use crypto it. If it's possible to use the standarts tools without crypto,
even when crypto is installed it migth be OK.
RedHat, debian and other don't have special distributions for france, for
instance ... I don't know which level of crypto they have.

Would it be possible to have 2 distribs sets on the CD (on with crypto and
one without), or an additional set which overrides the crypto-tainted
libs and tool with the crypto-free ones ?

This begins to be off-topic for this list ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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