On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Ang Chin Han <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:34 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> According to this; >> >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129237675106730&w=2 >> >> "We have never allowed US citizens or foreign citizens working in the US >> to hack on crypto code (Niels Provos used to make trips to Canada to >> develop OpenSSH for this reason), so direct interference in the crypto >> code is unlikely" >> >> Luckily Canada is just nearby north America, and I don't have to eat >> carrots and see my dentist in the other day. >> >> So much for a free country and "land of the brave". Better come here >> to Malaysia and have fun with us downloading movies. > > ? > > Strong crypto (at that time) export was classifiable as weaponsin the > US. You really don't want your coders to get in trouble. Besides, that > policy is similar to not letting an Open Source project's code get > tainted by contributions from people who may inevitably contribute > tainted closed code. > > Besides, "we never allowed" == "openbsd never allowed", not "X country > never allowed"
That's the safe way to avoid OpenBSD cryptocode come into dispute later on for export restrictions. I believe so. > > /me remembers tuning down the rsa key length just to be able to let > crypto-export restricted browsers to be able to connect to it. > _______________________________________________ More to come: http://blogs.csoonline.com/1296/an_fbi_backdoor_in_openbsd Denial from one of the accused: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2010/12/14/allegations-regarding-fbi-involvement-with-openbsd/ _______________________________________________ Owasp-Malaysia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420
