Subject: Re: User authentication
From: Brandon Caudle (bcaudle@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 17:32:31 EDT
How much trouble can the averge joe like me get in. My friend back in
Saudia Arabia wants W2K Server./ Suse 7.1 (US Edition)
Brandon Caudle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Rittau" <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>
To: <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: User authentication
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:48:59PM -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:49:48PM +0200, Olaf Hering (olh@suse.de)
wrote:
>
> > > The crypto stuff is somewhat problematic for a distributor...
> >
> > I'm not familiar enough with German cryptography law to comment on
> > whether or not that would be a problem for SuSE. But they distribute
> > OpenSSL. I suspect it's just a case of not knowing what options
> > netatalk users tend to use.
>
> AFAIK there aren't any problems with German laws. But SuSE also has
> a US branch and they probably have the same concerns as the Debian
> project, which distributes all SSL stuff in its non-US section. Servers
> that carry non-US are all located outside the US. (non-US does not mean
> that it's forbidden to use that software in the US or to download it
> to the US.)
>
> But then, as jeff pointed out, all major distributions include SSL.
> I think, you have to register with the US government somehow if you
> want to export crypto stuff. (It's possible to do that by e-mail
> and you only have to state the location where you're offering the
> software, AFAIK.)
>
> - Sebastian
>
>
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