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H A D3RDPARTY1.1556 Mon Aug 20 10:57:52 GMT 2018 roy Note import of dhcpcd-7.0.8
H A DCHANGES1.1556 Sun Jun 12 03:50:42 GMT 2011 rmind Note rmind-uvmplock branch merge.
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H A Dmi1.1556 Sun May 21 15:28:38 GMT 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.
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H A Dmi1.1556 Sun Dec 19 09:30:49 GMT 2010 jruoho Document the __builtin_return_address() GNU extension. Again this is well
justified due to the wide use of these non-standard extensions in the tree.

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