Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:02:37 +1000 (Australia/ACT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway) Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, sward@voltage.net (Susie Ward), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SecureBSD (Was: Re: Firewalls and the endless story!) Message-ID: <200007060502.PAA03242@caligula.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007052152100.44038-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Kris Kennaway" at Jul 05, 2000 09:53:05 PM
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In some mail from Kris Kennaway, sie said: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > 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? > > If I read the code, and then inadvertently use some concepts in my own > code they can try and claim it as a derived work and do nasty things to > me. There is a person working on an independant implementation for NetBSD of the "trusted binary" `problem'. AFAIK it has nothing to do with SecureBSD (unless they're using his code). Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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