[524] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: Getting security tools into a mainstream distribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Dec 17 19:48:49 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?=)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 10:18:57 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199512130047.BAA02073@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> from "Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?=" at Dec 13, 95 01:47:54 am
> I'm particularly concerned with ssh, which should (IMHO) completely
> replace rlogin/rsh, unless a specific fallback to those old and
> insecure utilities is needed for compatibility with other systems.
>
> Are any major Linux distributions hosted outside the US? Could they
> be moved, for that reason? Other comments?
The only obvious ones hosted outside the USA are the German ones like
SuSE. I believe you'll find Germany has some crypto export law which is
all a bit irrelevant as the EEC single market means you can export it to
the UK under EEC law then anywher else.
Best that someone puts together a 'free-world' package for Slackware
and Redhat and puts it on some easy to get to ftp sites (eg funet). Also
don't ask the developers of any distributions you do the packages for
for their support - that might risk dropping them in something although its
unlikely.
Alan
