From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 6 7:46:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.ai (cypherpunks.ai [209.88.68.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5BA37B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vangelderen.org (grolsch.ai [209.88.68.214]) by cypherpunks.ai (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CD04C; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:46:25 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <39B658C0.CD9A2E37@vangelderen.org> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:46:24 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain References: <200009061312.HAA68224@harmony.village.org> <200009061317.HAA68280@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <200009061312.HAA68224@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: > : RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain > > Note that other information at the site says that RSAREF isn't > released into the public domain. Its use is still governed by > copyright law, so we'll have to use the international version of > RSAREF if we want to get RSA into -current. RSAREF was only neccessary whilst the patent was enforced. Now that RSA is released[1] we can use the OpenSSL RSA implementation which is better. [1] The press release talk about RSADSI "waiving its rights to enforce the RSA patent for any development activities" This is very cunning as the patent never actually covered development. Instead it covers usage and sales of products incorporating RSA, both of which are not explicitly allowed for in the press release. Better be careful, better get written approval! Cheers, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen o _ _ _ jeroen@vangelderen.org _o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _< \_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)>(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message