Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:49:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Gary D. Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> To: dugsong@monkey.org (Dug Song) Cc: provos@citi.umich.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, markus@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH patches Message-ID: <199911021749.JAA10864@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.10.9911021016190.1191-100000@funky.monkey.org> from Dug Song at "Nov 2, 99 10:51:43 am"
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According to Dug Song: > On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Niels Provos wrote: > > > One of them, already convincing enough by itself, is the free > > commercial use. > > not within the US, though. :-( > > OpenBSD's OpenSSL relies on the system libcrypto, which uses a different > RSA implementation depending on which ssl26 package you've installed. > > for US users, this is RSAREF (RSA's reference implementation), which is > only available for NON-commercial use. in order to use RSAREF (or indeed, > any implementation of RSA) commercially, you must buy an RSA license. > there is no way around this. > > any other use of the RSA algorithm within the US is in violation of the > RSA patent (though few people seem to care about this in practice - how > many illegal SSH installations are out there?). > > all software that uses RSA is subject to this bogosity, including PGP: > > http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pgp-form.html > http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/pgpfaq.html#SubRSAREF > Anybody know how much longer the RSA patent hold? Seems to me it runs out in the next few years. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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