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SubjectRe: FW: Crypto
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Followup to:  <200008060002.UAA00652@tsx-prime.MIT.EDU>
By author: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:09:41 -0400
> From: Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>
>
> What needs to be done to get the FreeS/WAB KLIPS (kernel IPSEC)
> patches into the standard kernel distribution? Or should the target
> be a KLIPS module that plugs cleanly into a standard kernel? What
> about the encrypting file system stuff?
>
> My understanding that one of the potential problems is that the
> Free S/WAN folks wanted to make it be the case that *no* changes be made
> to the KLIPS code once it was merged into the kernel. This is a
> complete non-starter, since kernel developers need to be able to make
> interface changes, and then sweep through the KLIPS code to fix the code
> to use the new kernel interfaces.
>

Now, Sandy is one of the FreeS/WAN people, so I would assume that he's
talking with some amount of authority.

>
> So FreeS/WAN is being very careful to ensure that US law clearly
> does not apply. We won't even take a one-line bug fix from an
> American, though we happily accpet problem reports.
>
> I personally think if you want to enforce this restriction on code which
> is going to be folded into the Linux kernel, that it will be a complete
> non-starter.
>

Not really. They can maintain a "clean" tree in Canada. Linus can
still integrate bug fixes from other sources into the main kernel.

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