France rejects backdoor mandate

Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by anthk on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:51AM (#43444421)

You mean UKUSA? Echelon? Patriot Act? SSL and encryption 'bans' making the vendors get OpenSSL from the Canadian OpenBSD?

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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by mrweasel on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:40AM (#43445077)

OpenSSL = OpenSSL Software Foundation Inc / OpenSSL Software Services Inc (In the US)

OpenSSH = OpenBSD (In Canada).

OpenBSD does maintain a fork of OpenSSL, called LibreSSL.

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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by anthk on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:46AM (#43445110)

OpenBSD had a SSL stack too, not bound to US licenses and restrictions on exporting.

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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by mrweasel on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:27AM (#43445271)

Before the LibreSSL fork? I did not know that. They've shipped OpenSSL for as long as I can remember, and then forked it, in 2014.

How long ago was that?

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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by anthk on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:29AM (#43445542)

OpenSSL built on Canada was fine. Get NetBSD from US mirrors and you got a TLS-challenged OS until the 00's when the restriction exports on tech 'as weapons' were nonsense.

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