Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 1999 00:53:49 -0700 | From | Graffiti <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? |
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On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 07:21:51AM -0400, mark@hoist.nlcomm.com wrote: > It is, and betas will appear soon for 2.2.* kernels. > It will *never* be part of the standard kernel, because > US Government thinks that encryption is equal to munitions.. > > 40-bit encryption isn't. Why not just put 40 bit as the default > in the kernel, but require patching to get any higher.
Did France change their laws regarding crypto? Otherwise, you can't even put 40-bit encryption into the kernel. Unless you want to make sure French users need to get registered with thier government before using Linux.
> > > - ext2 is showing its age on larger partitions; my 3 9 gig drives > > take about a half hour to fsck, and up to a minute just to mount. > > ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/ > > Thanks. Is there any concensus on which filesystem is "next" after > ext2? There was lots of talk about the reiser fs for example...
Yeah, whatever works. :-)
-- DN P.S. are bigfoot & earthlink addresses still blocked? those are about my only "stable" email addresses...
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