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Re: Remove MKCRYPTO build option



> On Jun 28, 2016, at 9:42 PM, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> (If this belongs on another mailing list, please redirect.  I thought of putting it on tech-crypto but then the non-crypto people wouldn't have seen it!  And I didn't want to cross-post to both tech-userlevel and tech-kern lists.)
> 
> The MKCRYPTO=no option was introduced long ago, when there were legal issues regarding the export of cryptographic code from the US.
> ...
>  The export restrictions no longer apply, ...

Yes, that makes sense.  Anything we can do to remove those ugly political messes would be good.  (The same reasoning applies to crippled crypto; if we still have stuff like 40 bit "encryption" those should be nuked with prejudice too.)

	paul


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