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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Altman)
Tue Sep 19 12:10:48 2000

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:37:52 EDT
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>
Reply-To: jaltman@columbia.edu
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:07:54 -0400
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.969374272.jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>

Would you elaborate on the problems with the OpenSSL license?

> I remember you expressing such sentiments on the mozilla security list some
> months ago.  But, there are problems with the OpenSSL license.  And not
> enough crossplatform support.  And, I'm a big believer in multiple
> independent implementations.
> 
> Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> > What they _should_ do is use OpenSSL and work on that, instead of
> > reinventing the wheel.


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