From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 21:26:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1F637B81D for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA23343; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:26:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 21:26:21 -0700 From: Arun Sharma To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: Posted-To: mpc.lists.freebsd.questions,muc.lists.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: Commercial version of PGP for FreeBSD? References: Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [This message has also been posted.] On Wed, 24 May 2000 15:53:54 -0700 (PDT), Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > Does anyone else sell PGP licensed so that our company doesn't have to > worry about the patent issues (RSA and IDEA)? RSA patent expires in Sept. A European company holds the patent for IDEA - I'm not sure if it's valid in the US. In any case, buying a license (which gives you the patent rights) and then choosing a convenient implementation (openssl, m2crypto (python) etc) -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message