Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:25:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Sean Heber <sean@bebits.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH-2 Client Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001041621320.94026-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <006b01bf5710$147b9580$0a04cfd1@mwci.net>
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Sean Heber wrote: > It has to be one of the coolest SSH clients for Windows I've ever used. > Free too. Plus it's OSS. > > Of course it might be illegal within the US. I don't know, actually. But > it was developed outside the US without the RSAREF lib (if that means > anything). Can anyone help clear that up with me? I know a tiny bit about > the whole RSA patent mess, but not many of the legal catches. Hopefully I'm > not breaking the law by using PuTTY. :-) If it implements the secsh/SSH 2.0 protocol, then that isn't an issue, because the newer protocol avoids encumbered algorithms. If it doesn't implement it, then it doesn't quite answer the original question. Basically, the RSA algorithm is patented within the US, so you must either use RSAREF (accepting its restrictions against some types of commercial use) or get a license for the algorithm, which from what I've heard, starts at $50K. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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