Dennis Clarke wrote:
Here is the list of closed binaries for Sparc and i386/x86/AMD :http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/i386-closed.list and http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/sparc-closed.list So which ones are show stoppers ?
I'd like to point out that all of the crypto modules aren't really closed the source code is there and you can compile them yourself. It is just that other parts of the system expect them to be signed (libpkcs11 - open, krltd - open) and will reject them if kcfd (closed) says they are not or they don't correctly verify.
There is nothing stopping a distro builder from turn off that functionality, we just can't do it for the binary Solaris distro at this time (due to US export requirements).
All the smartcard related stuff is closed because it is going to be replaced and we know that some of it is encumbered. It is being replaced with the MUSCLE stack that is used on many Linux distros and on MacOS X.
IKE is encumbered unfortunately but in theory someone could port Racoon to Solaris (it doesn't work OOTB so some effort is needed).
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