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use be <a href=policy.html>freely available and with good licenses</a>.

We do not use cryptography with nasty patents.

We also require that such software is from a countries with useful export

licenses because we do not wish to break the laws of any country.

licenses because we do not wish to break the laws of any country.

We use strong and weak crypto in different parts of the system:

<ul>

<li>Strong blowfish based password entries.

<li>Strong blowfish based password entries with 128-bit salt and a

strength-control mechanism for the system administrator.

<li>KerberosIV fully integrated.

<li>IPSEC with 10+ ciphers integrated into the OS.

<li>IPSEC Photuris daemon

<li>The IPSEC Photuris daemon.

<li>Strong random number components used in numerous places.

<li>Strong random number components are used in numerous places.

<li>All the normal DES code in libc, where it belongs.

<li>All the normal DES code is in libc (where it belongs).

<li>DNS id pseudo-randomization.

<li>(What have I missed?)

</ul>

When we make OpenBSD releases or snapshots we do our build processes

in free countries to assure that the sources and binaries we provide

to users are free of tainting.

to users are free of tainting. In the past our release binary builds

have been done in Canada, Sweden, and Germany.

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