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Re: eCos andIPSec
Andrew Lunn wrote:
You can do either, but i would suggest creating a new package. As i
said earlier, IPsec cannot be made part of the standard eCos
distribution because of American export regulations. By making a
separate package, it can be distributed from a non-US server so
everybody can use it. I would call the package, CYGPKG_NET_FREEBSD_IPSEC
and place it in packages/net/bsd_tcpip_ipsec/current.
Didn't the Clinton administration remove this restriction because the
only thing it was achieving was to hinder legitimate U.S. software
exports ?
(see http://www.pgpi.org/doc/faq/pgpi/en/#Why:
[ ... ]
Thanks to the PGPi project, millions of users worldwide have got access
to free, strong cryptography. In 1999, the US Government finally lifted
the export controls on cryptographic software.
[ ... ]
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