Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5

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Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday October 30, 2002 @02:28AM from the gettin-it-on dept.

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."

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Re:exportation issues? by Angry+White+Guy · 2002-10-30 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

I think that this would be the same as not letting Stephen Hawking leave the country because he knows too much

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Mergint trends by VitrosChemistryAnaly · 2002-10-30 02:51 · Score: 3, Funny

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?

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1. Re:Mergint trends by anshil · 2002-10-30 03:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  KDE and GNOME merge, finally a common desktop for all.
  
  Redhat and SuSE merge, and bring yast to redhat.
  
  BSD and LINUX will merge.
  
  The vim and emacs teams join together and will bring out a new editor together in teamwork.
  
  Linus agrees on using CVS.
  
  The english world will make a big grammar reform, enabling a polyphonic script again.
  
  Star Wars will meet Star Treck.
  
  America decides to officaly use the metric system.
  
  The brits drive on the right side of the road. ...
  
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2. Re:Mergint trends by Yarn · 2002-10-30 10:44 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  we already drive on the right side of the road: the left.
  
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Re:stick to the Physics by PhysicsScholar · 2002-10-30 02:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Coming from a guy with a signature that advocates breast feeding of babies with beer, that hurts ;-)

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Great. . . by mntgomery · 2002-10-30 02:57 · Score: 2, Funny

so we can't sell encryption to our enemies, but giving it to them is fine? ;)

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Banned in the USA by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-30 03:14 · Score: 2, Funny

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.
Re:Eh? by BluBrick · 2002-10-30 03:24 · Score: 2, Funny

HUH? A klepto/crypto pun gets a +5 funny? Stop the world, I want to get off!

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Re:Looking for FreeSWAN? Try freeswan.ca by velkro · 2002-10-30 03:33 · Score: 5, Funny

You bastard... you've /.'d my server! =)

Oh well, so much for hiding in anonymity.

ken@freeswan.ca
Re:exportation issues? by Skirwan · 2002-10-30 03:45 · Score: 5, Funny

exportation
Is anyone else subtly annoyed that 'exportation' is a word?

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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we love crypto by shren · 2002-10-30 04:51 · Score: 3, Funny

...it will hopefully lead to more secure communications for all Linux users in the future.

Or the banning of Linux in several countries. Whichever comes first, you know.

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Re:exportation issues? by danish · 2002-10-30 05:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Is anyone else subtly annoyed that 'exportation' is a word?

"Exportation" is a perfectly cromulent word.
Re:exportation issues? by sab39 · 2002-10-30 06:05 · Score: 3, Funny

What would you prefer? Exportion?