[CrackMonkey] Another global networked filesystem

[Rick Moen]

begin  Paul J Collins quotation:

> This sfs thing looks damn interesting.  It looks a little like the
> bastard child of nfs and ssh.

I came across that while researching the recent amelioration of the USA's
batshit-crazy Department of Commerce "export" regulations on encryption
software.  SFS was one of the earliest Internet sites to register at
Matt Blaze's Export Notice Archive, http://www.crypto.com/exports/ .
It's one of the many USA-based efforts that are poised to take off, now
that a _little_ sanity has accidentally creeped into Washington. 

Commerce is dragging its feet on officially stating that binary versions
of open-source crypto is likewise freely exportable without restriction:
There's been a proposed change of policy to that effect (July 17), but
there resulting government synaptic activity usually takes about three
months to kick in, so I'm guessing maybe end of September to
mid-October.

http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/July2KProposedRegSum.html
http://cryptome.org/bxa091300.htm

Meanwhile, feel free to tell us what it's like to live in the free
world.

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