From: martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk (Martin Hamilton) Subject: Re: probs porting ssh 21 Feb 1997 09:58:21 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702211646.QAA02516.cygnus.gnu-win32@gizmo.lut.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-929795419P"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/97 Original-To: Michiel van Wessem Original-Cc: aspa@iki.fi, gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Uri: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:59:59 +0100." Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com --==_Exmh_-929795419P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Michiel van Wessem writes: | On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, aspa wrote: | | > another issue is the US export regulations. if the person who ports ssh | > lives in the US then he might not be allowed to export (for example make | > it available though ftp) it. | | Perhaps unless somebody gives him a shell account outside the US so that | he can write the encryption/decryption routines outside the US. :) There seem to be quite a few people working in this area outside the United States ;-) | Or maybe publicly available encryption/decryption libraries could be used. I've been thinking that it might be better to start again from scratch with a copy of the ssh protocol spec, the gmp and zlib source, and one of those free crypto libraries. We could really do with a free version of ssh (with Windows port :-) whose core code was under a single copyright/left, methinks. This is all a bit off-topic for the gnu-win32 list, though... Cheerio, Martin --==_Exmh_-929795419P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3i iQCVAwUBMw3RSdZdpXZXTSjhAQFSpQP+NVvkrZrskHk9AXXZfllVM+EF8suQVpcD eEEbCoVUPIHU1xQ+hVYF9oj2TmG5plhktnHzS5IAxu04cPOuL+gcc/LjLuFB/NY3 AgLPxGcA+j8tW+wsS/h41rFGLVnZ4LIlV+UonqVsXai6DCc4Yhn6wz373291XuD3 TmX4spLpm7U= =+Bwf -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_-929795419P-- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".