Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 16:57:28 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more RSAREF??? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000906165231.04a49e20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009061338200.52824-100000@freefall.freebsd. org> References: <20000906182758.DAA8E21187@ns1.infowest.com>
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Kris: This is good news! Will you also commit to -stable? Will OpenSSH run properly out of the box after the commit? (So far, I've never been able to get the version of OpenSSH in the base distribution to work. It complains that RSAREF is missing, even after the RSAREF port is installed.) --Brett At 02:40 PM 9/6/2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: >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 > >-- >In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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