[7846] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Tue Sep 19 13:28:12 2000
Message-Id: <200009191647.MAA31102@domains.invweb.net>
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:51:57 -0400
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <39C67690.ED9D87A3@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In <39C67690.ED9D87A3@algroup.co.uk>, on 09/18/00
at 02:09 PM, Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> said:
>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.
IIRC the OpenSSL project was not accepting code from US sources. Has this policy changed?
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