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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: SecureBSD (Was: Re: Firewalls and the endless story!)
To: kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:02:37 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, sward@voltage.net (Susie Ward),
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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


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