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Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5
Corbet writes "Linus has just merged the new crypto API and IPSec implementation into his 2.5 BitKeeper tree. This is the first time that serious cryptographic code has made an appearance in the mainline kernel, and it will hopefully lead to more secure communications for all Linux users in the future."
Why would superior theft abilities become part of kernel-proper?
Oh, you said crypto!
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
I think that this would be the same as not letting Stephen Hawking leave the country because he knows too much
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
PHP is to immature. Basic has been around forever. So I offer the first line of code:
10 rem *** Basic Linux kernel Implementation ***
Forseeable problems are many but the biggest is:
A) Basic needs an interpreter
B) Interpreter needs an OS
C) OS written on Basic might be tricky
Oh man...
First ICQ and AIM merge.
Then Crypto and IPSec merge.
Next you're gonna tell me that cats and dogs have merged.
What's the world coming to?
"It's a tarp!" -- Dyslexic Admiral Ackbar
Coming from a guy with a signature that advocates breast feeding of babies with beer, that hurts ;-)
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
so we can't sell encryption to our enemies, but giving it to them is fine? ;)
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Imagine if some legislator somewhere decided that this new crypto API (though it's for legitimate reasons) is somehow to be classified as a munitions and thus is a crime to export to other countries. He circulates a letter which his trusting co-legislators sign blindly. A week after its passing Linus gets locked up for anti-American activities. Alan Cox gets shipped to Guantanamo. Somewhere in Redmond a bowl-cut, bespectacled man cackles gleefully.
You bastard... you've /.'d my server! =)
Oh well, so much for hiding in anonymity.
ken@freeswan.ca
It sounds like something completifically inventorated, but sure enough the dictionary verificates its existification. I am extremifically annoyarated to be denyified this oppurtunitization to drop a Bush joke.
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Damn the Emperor!
Or the banning of Linux in several countries. Whichever comes first, you know.
Maybe the state's highest function is to grind out insoluble problems. (Zelazny, Hall of Mirrors)
"Exportation" is a perfectly cromulent word.
It couldn't be Linus Van Pelt...hmmm..who else might it be?
Oh yeah, that Linus. What, he's like Prince and Madonna now, only needs one name?
What would you prefer? Exportion?