Hifn Restricts Crypto Docs, OpenBSD Opens Fire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 13, 2006 @11:45PM from the don't-tread-on-me dept.

Mhrmnhrm writes "After totally closing off public access to documentation for their chips roughly five years ago, Hifn is again offering them, but with an invasive registration requirement. Needless to say, Theo de Raadt and the rest of the OpenBSD team were not amused, and following a Hifn manager's missive, the gauntlet has been thrown. Either open the docs fully, or be removed from the system. This wouldn't be the first time... the same thing happened to both Adaptec and Intel following similar spats."

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Re:By my math... by RevDobbs · 2006-06-14 03:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That Theo had to type his name and address into a company's web page.

That's what Hitler and IBM said to the German Jews.

... sort of. But if you're going to put your newly acquired crypto hardware info to use in a situation that displeases W. -- say, including drivers in your free hippie-communist Linux distro, OpenBSD -- one might worry that they'd be quietly extradited to a little island in the caribbean.