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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:24:04 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH in the base (was Re: OpenSSL update) 
Message-ID:  <19991216202404.92CBA1CC6@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>  of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:37:37 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912152236481.938-100000@green.dyndns.org> 

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Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > > Sounds great.  I hope this means I get to import OpenSSH!
> > 
> > Hell, yes!
> > 
> > I reckon it may be better to let me do it; that way I can get
> > Internat and Freefall synchronised.
> 
> We should discuss this and its ramifications on -security.  I'll move
> this there :)

It's not a crypto export problem, it's the RSA patent that's the problem.
Any code that isn't RSAREF based for RSA support is unusable in the US.  I
don't think OpenSSL linked against RSAREF is useable for OpenSSH.

Cheers,
-Peter




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