[Fedora-packaging] crypto in fedora

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 14:42:26 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:47:41AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 10:23 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Then we have to register crypto packages somewhere such that the people 
> > in charge can do the paperwork, isn't it? Don't we need a guideline
> > here?
> 
> I actually need to prep a guideline that has all packages with crypto
> technology block FE-LEGAL (if that's still the alias).  We'll use that
> to get an audit of the code to make sure its either not new crypto, or
> if it is, alert the appropriate people for export filings.

Hate to be difficult, but what about a package like ocaml-cryptokit
which originates outside the US?

  http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html#cryptokit

(I don't think that particular package has anything which could be
described as "new crypto").

Rich.

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