Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:48:48 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Susie Ward <sward@voltage.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SecureBSD (Was: Re: Firewalls and the endless story!) Message-ID: <20000705214847.B631@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051615140.98975-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:24:40PM -0700 References: <4.3.1.2.20000705165602.00da1ee0@mail.voltage.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051615140.98975-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:24:40PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Susie Ward wrote: > > Speaking of SecureBSD, does anyone have any opinions on the usefulness of > > SecureBSD? I've thought about testing it out, but I don't have any servers > > at the moment to be playing with so I've been putting it off. [snip] > I haven't looked at it beyond reading the (minimal) supplied documentation > because I'm scared of the license terms and what the securebsd people > might do to me if they catch up with me after I've read the code, but as > an end user by all means take a look and see if you think it's useful for > you. I don't see why you can't read the code. To my knowledge, none of the methods or algorithms have been patented by the SecureBSD people. Nothing to stop one from writing their own implementation of the same processes. Or have they gone for some patents? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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