From: Ken Bantoft (ken_at_freeswan.ca)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 20:45:20 CET
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 seberino_at_spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> Thanks for the info. Doesn't IPv6 require
> IPsec??? If so, then how can governments play games
> with restricting distribution of it? It would be
> a little silly since the entire Internet would be
> using crypto in all Internet traffic.
Yup. And they aren't playing games restricting it at the moment.
>
> So if US government tried to clamp down on crypto
> exports would that mean that technically fetchmail,
> openssl, gpg, etc. servers would all have to be
> careful?? Seems like that would be very damaging
> to economy and unrealistic. I hope it never happens.
>
> Chris
Realistically, as Mike said, they couldn't stop it, since it's already
started.
They tried to stop PGP years ago (hence the old Domestic + International
versions that appeared back in the 2.x days) and failed, and I suspect
they'd fail again. That doesn't mean that they wouldn't try, and it would
get ugly for awhile for anyone involved... but hopefully it doesn't come
to that.
--
Ken Bantoft The Unoffical FreeS/WAN Site:
ken_at_freeswan.ca http://www.freeswan.ca
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"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing
random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
-- John Von Neumann, 1951
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