[31645] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RSA Patent Expired
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Tue Oct 3 12:57:41 2000
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:55:46 -0400
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20001003125545.X38472@jade.chc-chimes.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010030937310.17105-100000@catbert.rellim.com>; from gem@rellim.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:39:03AM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:39:03AM -0700, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> 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.
OpenSSH/OpenSSL use their own rsa implementation, so
RSA can defend their dead code as long as they want.
--
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
