Question about Export Restrictions

R. B. Riddick arne_woerner at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 13 12:25:11 UTC 2006


Tom <bifrost at minions.com> writes:
> I work for a company that builds an appliance based on FreeBSD
> (4.X) and we've just had our first question come up about
exporting
> the appliance out of the US (specifically the EU).
> 
> Since FreeBSD uses OpenSSL/OpenSSH, I'm under the impression
> that we need to gut out anything higher than 56bit (3DES/etc)
crypto
> out of it.
> 
What about downloading and installing the crypto package(-s) right
at the deployment site (in europe or whereever) from some Canadian
or european (e. g. Denmark) ftp server?

That's what I do since many years and I still never was in
prison...

-Arne

---
Canada Oh Canada...

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