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Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages



On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:32:07AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@kaplowitz.org> writes:
> 
> > Choice 2: Use the same source package for both althea and
> > althea-ssl. [...] However, since even the non-crypto version would
> > be in non-US, anyone in a crypto-restricted country who gets their
> > .debs from CD-ROMs would probably not get any copy of althea, since
> > they would not get the Binary 1 non-US version.
> 
> I'm not sure of the fact that people in Russia, China, et al have no
> access to non-US CDs (maybe their governments even like the title
> better <g>). Does anybody have concrete knowledge in this regard?

no problem in Russia, there are debian (and others, like openbsd) 
mirrors everywhere, CD sold, ssh is widely used, and the governmet has
obviously other problems to deal with


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