From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 13:40:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28D437B42C; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA57704; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:40:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Aaron D. Gifford" Cc: questions@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No more RSAREF??? In-Reply-To: <20000906182758.DAA8E21187@ns1.infowest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Aaron D. Gifford wrote: > With today's announcement by RSA Security, Inc. that beginning today > (6 Sept. 2000) they will no longer enforce the RSA patent (which expires > later this month on the 20th anyway), how will this change FreeBSD's > plans to completely remove the requirement for RSAREF use in the US? > Will it simplify things much? Will international (non-US) and domestic > (US) crypto sources merge together better? The US version will catch up with what non-US people have been enjoying for the past 6 months or so. I'll be committing tonight to -current - in the meantime, you can just build world with MAKE_RSAINTL=yes and not feel guilty :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message