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Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Sep 18 16:48:55 2000

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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:09:52 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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William Allen Simpson wrote:
> 
> Fallout from the early RSA release into public domain, the references
> to BSAFE have been replaced, and a bunch of stuff are GPL.  Is there
> a team of folks doing independent code review?
> 
> Since this is likely to show up on a lot of systems, and any bugs
> will plague us for a long time, this seems to me to be a time for
> serious cooperation.

What they _should_ do is use OpenSSL and work on that, instead of
reinventing the wheel.

Cheers,

Ben.

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