From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 6 11:19:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B87D37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA51894 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:19:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:19:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Sander Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain In-Reply-To: <39B662C7.80E69F1@vangelderen.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From the rsa website (the quiz, hey- who can resist a free T-Shirt) there is the following tidbit... > With the patent expiration, software developers are now free to develop > their own implementation of the RSA algorithm from scratch. However, > RSA BSAFE and RSAREF code is still proprietary and subject to licensing. But since there are already other (better?) coded implementations of RSA's algorithms, if those are used we all should be golden. Correct? -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message