[ECOS] Ipsec Support in eCos

[Gary Thomas]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:58, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:18:16PM +0530, Ramanujan Puranam Tandalam wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to know whether there is availability of IPSEC in eCos. 
> 
> Not as far as i know.
> 
> > Or are there any reasons for not including the Security Protocols in
> > the eCos Tree.
> 
> There could be issues with distribution from the USA? I know they are
> problems including OpenSSL in the main tree because of its encryption
> algorithms. The same may apply to the IPsec algorithms. IANAL, so i
> don't know.

This was the main reason we've not added this to eCos - it could 
possibly make it illegal to distribute from the U.S.  If one wanted to
add this support, it would have to be done in such a way that the main
eCos sources were not tainted and the security stuff was kept outside.

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