From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 14 15:50: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750AE1528A for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:46:28 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Terry Lambert" , Cc: Subject: RE: New bind not completely open source... why GPL is not always Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:46:28 -0700 Message-ID: <000001beff02$fb800080$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <199909142218.PAA23085@usr09.primenet.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It is obvious to me that the reason for the license restriction > is to obtain a special dispensation for RSA for the use of its > US software patents and code licensed thereof in free software. I'm quite curious why they simply didn't use other algorithms (such as MD5, DSS and DH) that are free from patent restrictions. As far as I know, there's nothing you can do with the patented encryption algorithms that you can't do without them. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message