[trasz]

Of course not - they are free, you don't need to import them.

If you meant "Cisco VPN gateway" then yes, and I wonder if China is actually going to prevent import of cryptography hardware that's known to be broken or backdoored.

[dragonelite]

It's a legit concern given the Crypto AG gate that happened a while ago. Where the so called reputation of swish neutrality was destroyed, if i'm not mistaken the German and American Intelligence agency had compromised the encryption hardware.

[trasz]

It's a legit concern given that it's not just Crypto AG, IIRC backdoors were also found in Cisco and bunch of other gear.

[caymanjim]

What makes you think that cost (or lack thereof) has anything to do with whether or not something is imported? The two things are completely orthogonal.

[trasz]

The law being discussed regulates import and export of commercial appliances. It doesn't apply to free software.