[31646] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: RSA Patent Expired
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Tue Oct 3 14:41:20 2000
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@MHSC.com>
To: Richard Welty <rwelty@vpnet.com>,
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 11:39:35 -0700
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And as soon as they put in all the features that SSH1 has and can get a
functioning SSH2 client, I will do exactly that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwelty@vpnet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:32 AM
> To: Bill Fumerola; Hendrik Visage
> Cc: Bradly Walters; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: RSA Patent Expired
>
>
>
> 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
>
