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Re: COMPARISON: Stronghold vs. ApacheSSL

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Morris)
Fri Dec 13 05:13:17 1996

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:30:04 -0800 (PST)
From: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9612121123.aa26365@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu



On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Ben Laurie wrote:

> Stronghold is derived from Apache-SSL. The only notable differences I'm aware
> of are that Apache-SSL is free, and Stronghold isn't. Apache-SSL doesn't come
> precompiled, and Stronghold does.

I haven't researched Stronghold, but another Apache-SSL derrivative,
Sioux, (sorry no URL at hand) includes all the required licenses from
RSA et al which is a problem users of the plain SSLeavy support for Apache
must resolve, at least prior to use in the US.

Dave Morris


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