Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (670 mails)

["Thomas Michael Wanka" <tm_wanka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 29 Nov 2001, at 12:24, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> "this is only a subset of updates
> - we don't list all here for some strange reasons" :)

I do not know if this applies to this case, but for long times any 
crypto related technology had different packages/RPMs/whatever for 
the US and the rest of the world. IIRC this was caused by the export 
limitations for crypto technologies of the USA on one hand and some 
usage patents for cryptotechnologies from some US companies.

For that reasons many crypto related products had two different 
packages. Personally I think that even a third package must have 
existed, as there are US/international regulations not to allow 
certain high tech products being sold to some "bad" countries (like 
Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, etc.).

Given the fact, that US regulations are a bit looser now, and some 
usage patents have expired (Diffie Hellmann and RAS, 2000?), it is 
clear, that now some parts of the distribution are the same for the 
US and the rest of the world.

HTH

mike