From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 20 14: 6:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4401237C1BB for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:06:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA66538; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:02:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA15171; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:02:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:02:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openssl in -current Message-ID: <20000220140211.K14682@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000220132647.H14682@dragon.nuxi.com> <13362.951082342@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <13362.951082342@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:32:22PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:32:22PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 1. They're in Canada > > > > What does that buy them? They have the same restrictions on rsaref since > > it originated from the USA. > > I don't believe they're under the same legal gun when it comes to the > patent issues. This isn't a crypto export issue, again, this is an > issue of what people in the USA are technically allowed to do with the > RSA reference code. Then I am really missing the point and I wish it would be stated in suffient detail for one to be able to understand. * OpenBSD has the same distribution restraints concerning rsaref we do. * As an OpenBSD user in the USA, I have the same restrictions that I do as a FreeBSD user in the USA. Thus the patent issues are the same. I don't see where any reciprocal rights on patents between the USA and Canada comes into play here. While I don't know is how OpenBSD builds the two sets of bits, I do know how easy it was for me as a user to install 2.6 and get a RSA enabled crypto lib. > Yes, I think anybody can do the pkg_add step manually, but that's the > kind of "handwork" I was referring to. Ok, now we're getting on the same page of music. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message