South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by hsivonen on Sunday February 16, 2020 @01:12PM (#22342878)

That was more South Korea’s own bad crypto policy’s fault than Microsoft’s fault, though.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by pcr910303 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @01:22PM (#22342950)

> That was more South Korea’s own bad crypto policy’s fault

South Korean here, I wouldn’t say it was the government’s fault to enforce better security/crypto tech on the web when banking, right? To be strict, everything really started because of the US’s IMO useless export restrictions. Then it became a legacy that couldn’t be third of for ~20 yrs. I don’t think the policy was great, but it was reasonable at the time.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by pitaj on Sunday February 16, 2020 @01:33PM (#22343014)

I think the point is that it wasn't better security. And nowadays it likely has no improvement or actually decreases security.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by microcolonel on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:32PM (#22343890)

It was because the U.S. government placed export restrictions on Rijndael. I mean, the alternative might have been for them to just use Rijndael anyway, and that would probably have been better in the long run, but heh. Now that that stuff is out of the way, I honestly can't see why they don't (or didn't until recently?) allow Rijndael or ChaCha20.

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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by modo_mario on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:48AM (#22346756)

Wait what? How could they even put export restrictions on it?

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