[31632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RSA Patent Expired
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Mon Oct 2 18:42:17 2000
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:40:16 -0400
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To: Bradly Walters <bwalters@inet-direct.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <GDECIHPBJAGGIFOKEIHEMELOCDAA.bwalters@inet-direct.com>; from bwalters@inet-direct.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:40:12PM -0500
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:40:12PM -0500, Bradly Walters wrote:
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> http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html
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> Does this help resolve any security issues related
> to NANOG networks?
>
> Opinions?
You're a few weeks late. They(RSA) released the technology into
the public domain a few weeks before the patent expired.
It does allow operating systems to ship with sshd enabled by
default[1] without having to worry about violating patents.
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Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
1. FreeBSD 4.1.1! :->
