[31641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RSA Patent Expired
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Tue Oct 3 12:23:44 2000
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:21:39 -0400
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To: Hendrik Visage <hvisage@is.co.za>
Cc: Bradly Walters <bwalters@inet-direct.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20001003122139.S38472@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20001003090810.A25014@hermwas.is.co.za>; from hvisage@is.co.za on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:08:10AM +0200
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:08:10AM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> > It does allow operating systems to ship with sshd enabled by
> > default[1] without having to worry about violating patents.
>
> Then there are OpenSSH ;^) http://www.openssh.com
> which doesn't contain ANY patented/copyrighted algorithms
OpenSSH uses RSA for ssh1, so it too benefited greatly
from RSA's release of the code into the public domain.
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Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
