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RevisionDateAuthorComments
 1.5 21-May-2017  riastradh Remove MKCRYPTO option.

Originally, MKCRYPTO was introduced because the United States
classified cryptography as a munition and restricted its export. The
export controls were substantially relaxed fifteen years ago, and are
essentially irrelevant for software with published source code.

In the intervening time, nobody bothered to remove the option after
its motivation -- the US export restriction -- was eliminated. I'm
not aware of any other operating system that has a similar option; I
expect it is mainly out of apathy for churn that we still have it.
Today, cryptography is an essential part of modern computing -- you
can't use the internet responsibly without cryptography.

The position of the TNF board of directors is that TNF makes no
representation that MKCRYPTO=no satisfies any country's cryptography
regulations.

My personal position is that the availability of cryptography is a
basic human right; that any local laws restricting it to a privileged
few are fundamentally immoral; and that it is wrong for developers to
spend effort crippling cryptography to work around such laws.

As proposed on tech-crypto, tech-security, and tech-userlevel to no
objections:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-crypto/2017/05/06/msg000719.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2017/05/06/msg000928.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2017/05/06/msg010547.html

P.S. Reviewing all the uses of MKCRYPTO in src revealed a lot of
*bad* crypto that was conditional on it, e.g. DES in telnet... That
should probably be removed too, but on the grounds that it is bad,
not on the grounds that it is (nominally) crypto.
 1.4 09-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.4.2; 1.4.4;
no more warnings for ld.
 1.3 09-Feb-2017  joerg Turn off fatal linker warnings for now due to mktemp.
 1.2 06-Feb-2017  christos - Disable crypto for now, and functionality that we don't provide.
- Fix warnings
 1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos Import OpenBSD's netcat.
 1.4.4.2 09-Feb-2017  christos 727211
 1.4.4.1 09-Feb-2017  christos file Makefile was added on branch bouyer-socketcan on 2017-02-09 21:25:06 +0000
 1.4.2.2 20-Mar-2017  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.4.2.1 09-Feb-2017  pgoyette file Makefile was added on branch pgoyette-localcount on 2017-03-20 06:58:05 +0000
 1.2 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.2.2; 1.2.4;
- Disable crypto for now, and functionality that we don't provide.
- Fix warnings
 1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos Import OpenBSD's netcat.
 1.2.4.2 06-Feb-2017  christos 727208
 1.2.4.1 06-Feb-2017  christos file atomicio.c was added on branch bouyer-socketcan on 2017-02-06 16:03:41 +0000
 1.2.2.2 20-Mar-2017  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.2.2.1 06-Feb-2017  pgoyette file atomicio.c was added on branch pgoyette-localcount on 2017-03-20 06:58:05 +0000
 1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.1.1.1.2; 1.1.1.1.4;
Import OpenBSD's netcat.
 1.1.1.1.4.2 06-Feb-2017  christos 727210
 1.1.1.1.4.1 06-Feb-2017  christos file atomicio.h was added on branch bouyer-socketcan on 2017-02-06 16:00:51 +0000
 1.1.1.1.2.2 20-Mar-2017  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.1.1.1.2.1 06-Feb-2017  pgoyette file atomicio.h was added on branch pgoyette-localcount on 2017-03-20 06:58:05 +0000
 1.3 06-Feb-2017  wiz branches: 1.3.2; 1.3.4;
Use full month name in Dd.
 1.2 06-Feb-2017  christos - Disable crypto for now, and functionality that we don't provide.
- Fix warnings
 1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos Import OpenBSD's netcat.
 1.3.4.2 06-Feb-2017  wiz 54390
 1.3.4.1 06-Feb-2017  wiz file nc.1 was added on branch bouyer-socketcan on 2017-02-06 16:08:57 +0000
 1.3.2.2 20-Mar-2017  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.3.2.1 06-Feb-2017  pgoyette file nc.1 was added on branch pgoyette-localcount on 2017-03-20 06:58:05 +0000
 1.7 20-Jun-2023  rin nc(1): Declare and initialize ``on'' ifdef SO_BINDANY. NFC yet for us.
 1.6 03-Oct-2019  sevan Skip options which rely on crypto support in getopt() argument list, if we're
not building with cryto support.

via JP <rlntlss83 at gmail com> on tech-misc@
 1.5 09-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.5.2; 1.5.4; 1.5.16;
use mkstemp to prevent linker warning.
 1.4 09-Feb-2017  joerg Mark help as static+dead. Don't use __attribute__.
XXX needs a lot more static love. Uses mktemp and doesn't link.
 1.3 09-Feb-2017  christos the tls ifdef was a bit too aggressive.
 1.2 06-Feb-2017  christos - Disable crypto for now, and functionality that we don't provide.
- Fix warnings
 1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos Import OpenBSD's netcat.
 1.5.16.1 13-Apr-2020  martin Mostly merge changes from HEAD upto 20200411
 1.5.4.2 09-Feb-2017  christos 727295
 1.5.4.1 09-Feb-2017  christos file netcat.c was added on branch bouyer-socketcan on 2017-02-09 21:23:49 +0000
 1.5.2.2 20-Mar-2017  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.5.2.1 09-Feb-2017  pgoyette file netcat.c was added on branch pgoyette-localcount on 2017-03-20 06:58:05 +0000
 1.3 09-Feb-2017  joerg branches: 1.3.2; 1.3.4;
Mark help as static+dead. Don't use __attribute__.
XXX needs a lot more static love. Uses mktemp and doesn't link.
 1.2 06-Feb-2017  christos - Disable crypto for now, and functionality that we don't provide.
- Fix warnings
 1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.1 06-Feb-2017  christos Import OpenBSD's netcat.
 1.3.4.2 09-Feb-2017  joerg 727238
 1.3.4.1 09-Feb-2017  joerg file socks.c was added on branch bouyer-socketcan on 2017-02-09 20:37:59 +0000
 1.3.2.2 20-Mar-2017  pgoyette Sync with HEAD
 1.3.2.1 09-Feb-2017  pgoyette file socks.c was added on branch pgoyette-localcount on 2017-03-20 06:58:05 +0000

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