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Subject: 
Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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Date: 
Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:05:37 GMT
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Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@nospam.mallorn.com> wrote:
> How are you dealing with export issues for Kerberos, gnupg, and
> netscape?  Do you offer bones and slimmed down netscape/gnupg
> encryption?  Or do you just restrict access with FTP banners and the
> like?

Right now, it's restricted by IP address to just BU campus. My understanding
is that with the relaxed export restrictions, we're all good and could just
have a warning banner asking people for whom it is illegal to please go
away. But I'm waiting on word from legal people here.


> If you don't mind, I might like to pick your brain about how you did this.

Sure, pick away. :) One of my side-projects is going to be setting up a
UniLinux mailing list, for universities working on similar projects.
(There's quite a few.)



> Anyhow, I'm curious how many man hours and what kind of resources it
> took to get this set up, and how hard you anticipate it being to keep things
> up-to-date....

Lots to set up originally. I've been working non-stop on it since the
beginning of the year, with some help from about four other people (+
testers). I'm firmly of the belief that this initial effort is worth it --
it will reduce a lot of effort later, especially in security incidents.

As for keeping things up to date, well, we'll see. Had a taste of how
that'll be when moving from RH 6.2beta to RH 6.2 final (which was a fairly
significant change, due to the addition of all the krb5 stuff). That took
about two days -- not bad. And, it's all work that otherwise needs to be
done on a system-by-system basis.


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(...) How are you dealing with export issues for Kerberos, gnupg, and netscape? Do you offer bones and slimmed down netscape/gnupg encryption? Or do you just restrict access with FTP banners and the like? If you don't mind, I might like to pick your (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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