Re: Linux World conference - IPSEC BOF

From: Michael H. Warfield (mhw@wittsend.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 18:47:01 EST


        Adding linux-kernel into the Cc list...

On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:36:04PM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
> Michael Warfield said:
> > I'll get you what information I can in the next day or so. Past
> > that, I'll be "off the air" till after LinuxWorld (the following weekend
> > at least). If anyone else is going to be there, maybe we can brainstorm
> > at a BOF or something....

> I'll be there, for at least the early part of the week. I'll check the
> BOF board, and make an IPSEC BOF if nobody else does it first.

        Early part of the week? The tutorials are on Tuesday and the
BOFS are on Wednesday and Thursday. You gonna try for Wednesday? I
don't quite count "Thursday" as "early part of the week". :-)

        Seems like there are some other issues vis-a-vis cryptography
in the kernel. If we have the loopback encryption and CIPE and FreeSWan
and who knows what else using crypto algorithms in the kernel, we really
don't need three implimentations of 3DES, two of Idea, blowfish,
and a partidge in a pear tree. Maybe a separate BOF on cryptography
in the kernel would be timely, given the resent changes in US export
policy and the changes in policy at crytography.org.

> John

        Mike

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