Hi, On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Cryptography restrictions.
1. By whom? I was not aware that PGP, for instance, was subject to the US RSA-type restrictions. So who is imposing this?
2. Does this mean, for instance, that the German edition will not be available at all in "English" countries? Otherwise, what is to stop people who want PGP etc from getting the German edition (as well as, if not instead of, the English one)?
As it stands, this looks bizarre. No doubt, Lenz, there *are* good reasons; we puzzled S.u.S.E. fans would, however, welcome a fuller explanation of what they are.
OK, please excuse my first message, which was indeed a bit short :) I was in a hurry... Bodo or Hubert, please correct me, if I am wrong in the following points, I am no expert in these things. The funny thing is, that the US export restrictions on cryprography force us to leave out these packages out of the english version. This is due to the fact, that all non-European orders are handled by our american division, which would otherwise be unable to reexport the package, even if they imported it from Germany. You can still download these packages from a non-US ftp-Server. I hope, that this is understandable, my English seems to be kind of weird today ;-) I agree, that this sounds bizarre. I too was puzzled, the first time I heard about this. Best regards, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer S.u.S.E. GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Gebhardtstrasse 2 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de</A">http://www.suse.de</A</A>> 90762 Fuerth, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e