[31642] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: RSA Patent Expired
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Tue Oct 3 12:34:03 2000
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From: Richard Welty <rwelty@vpnet.com>
To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>,
Hendrik Visage <hvisage@is.co.za>
Cc: Bradly Walters <bwalters@inet-direct.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:31:35 -0400
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Bill Fumerola [mailto:billf@chimesnet.com] wrote:
> OpenSSH uses RSA for ssh1, so it too benefited greatly
> from RSA's release of the code into the public domain.
except that nobody should be using ssh1 for _anything_ if they can
possibly avoid it. even the orginal authors of ssh are strongly
advocating
consigning ssh1 to the trash heap of computer security.
richard
