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                     18: <h3><font color=#e00000><strong>OpenBSD Cryptography</strong></font></h3>
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                     20: The OpenBSD project is based in Canada.<p>
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1.2       deraadt    22: The <a href=http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ECL.html>Export Control
1.3       deraadt    23: List of Canada</a> places no significant restriction on the export of
1.1       deraadt    24: cryptographic software, and is in fact even more explicit about the
1.2       deraadt    25: free export of freely-available cryptographic software.  Marc Plumb
                     26: has also done a
                     27: <a href=http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/doc/crypto-export.html>
                     28: fair bit of research to test the cryptographic laws.</a>
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1.3       deraadt    31: Hence the OpenBSD project has embedded cryptography into numerous places
                     32: in the operating system.  We require that the cryptographic software we
                     33: use be <a href=policy.html>freely available and with good licenses</a>.
1.4     ! deraadt    34: We do not use cryptography with nasty patents.
1.3       deraadt    35: We also require that such software is from a countries with useful export
                     36: licenses because we do not wish to break any laws at all.
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                     38: <ul>
                     39: <li>Strong blowfish based password entries.
                     40: <li>KerberosIV fully integrated.
1.4     ! deraadt    41: <li>IPSEC with 10+ ciphers integrated into the OS.
1.1       deraadt    42: <li>IPSEC Photuris daemon
                     43: <li>Strong random number components used in numerous places.
                     44: <li>All the normal DES code in libc, where it belongs.
                     45: <li>(What have I missed?)
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