Given that cryptography still faces export restrictions, would this
cause problems for OSS distributions that want to include Squeak?

Also I'm not sure that people who want to minimize their image size
would benefit. Why can't Cryptography be easily loaded by people who
need it?

Steve

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Rob Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose that Cryptography be included as part of the image,
> by default.  As it stands now it is in the Cryptography repository, which
> most don't seem to know about or there are one-off copies that are developed
> separately.  David Shaffer has been stewarding a reintegration of these
> forks and ensuring the tests pass.  Everyone should be able to take
> advantage of the algorithms provided by the Cryptography package.
>
> Along the same lines, it would be a great help for the vm providers to
> include the CryptographyPlugins when they build a new vm.  I believe there
> are 3 plugins and they really ought to be build internally, since they are
> unchanging.
>
> I would like to hear what others think of the possibility of making this
> change.
>
> Thank you,
> Rob
>
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