Re: SSH .deb files

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

glen@gomotech.com (Glen S Mehn) wrote:
>Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>
>deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
>
>and then type apt-get install ssh. Ssh uses cryptography that you
>technically have to license in the US to use, so it's a "non-US"
>package.

With the slink version that's true, but that really makes it non-free
rather than non-US. potato now has OpenSSH, which doesn't suffer from
this problem.

The non-US problem is that US law prohibits software containing strong
encryption from being exported from the United States; it therefore has
to be placed on a mirror outside the United States for people to
download. (Importing it into the US is OK.)

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science         [riva.ucam.org]