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Re: A couple ideas



On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Roger R Dingledine wrote:

> > [Did I miss it or does Indy not come with ssh and pgp/gpg? worth
> > considering?]
> 
> Two problems with ssh -- patents and export laws. The OpenBSD team is
> working on the former apparently. As for other cypto -- again, we have to
> worry about export laws. 
> 
> What would be nice is a small amount of space on a machine in a place with
> sane export laws. We'd also need a packager in such a country. Right now,
> all our disk space is in the US.

My site is hosted in Norway, I'm not sure what the laws are like there,
but I'm guessing they're sane. I'm based in the UK, so AFAIK I can
'export' whatever I like. I've got some spare space I could set aside for
stuff like that.
 
cog
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