Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:40:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No more RSAREF??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009061338200.52824-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000906182758.DAA8E21187@ns1.infowest.com>
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Aaron D. Gifford wrote:
> With today's announcement by RSA Security, Inc. that beginning today
> (6 Sept. 2000) they will no longer enforce the RSA patent (which expires
> later this month on the 20th anyway), how will this change FreeBSD's
> plans to completely remove the requirement for RSAREF use in the US?
> Will it simplify things much? Will international (non-US) and domestic
> (US) crypto sources merge together better?
The US version will catch up with what non-US people have been enjoying
for the past 6 months or so. I'll be committing tonight to -current - in
the meantime, you can just build world with MAKE_RSAINTL=yes and not feel
guilty :-)
Kris
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