I need encryption and steganography*. Why isn it in the kernel?
• (TJ) Note that this section was written in 2000/2001, and the laws in various countries have changed since then. Updates would be appreciated. In France and Russia, strong encryption is essentially illegal, using it there requires a license which is seldom granted. The United States has cumbersome restrictions on exporting such software (it’s considered a “munition”–see http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/ ). Having these features in the standard kernel would therefore cause great inconvenience to people in those countries. However, separate programs and patches to the kernel are available at: • ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/filesystems/linux/ • http://www.freeswan.org/ • http://www.inka.de/~bigred/devel/cipe.html • http://www.quick.com.au/ftp/pub/sjg/ • http://www.ssh.org/ • http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ • http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/ • ftp://ftp.tik.ee.ethz.ch/pub/packages/skip/ (*) Steganography is disguising sensitive data as noise in a digitized image, soun
