[31643] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RSA Patent Expired
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary E. Miller)
Tue Oct 3 12:41:01 2000
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:39:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Yo Bill!
Better read the press release again. No CODE was released by RSA,
only the ALGORITHM was released. Bsafe and RSAREF are still
copyrighted and owned by RSA. They still intend to defend
that ownership.
RGDS
GARY
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
> billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
>
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