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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:09:15 +0200 (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=)
From:      Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@jawa.at>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NAT and PPTP
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.55.0307300757230.1884@dings>
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Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> By the way, is there BSD-licensed code for the enhanced version of MPPE
> that does both encryption AND compression (I believe it's called MPPC)?
no. MPPC (STAC-compression) is proprietary and patented (www.hifn.com),
you can enable MPPC, but you have to buy the sources.

> I understand that Microsoft Windows has it built in, and that it's available
> for Linux as well.
this is a kernel module for linux, however they are violating the
US-patent.

bye,
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