From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 5:54: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dazed.slacker.com (dazed.slacker.com [208.15.208.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D97A37B43C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 53210 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Aug 2000 12:54:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:54:01 -0500 From: David McNett To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Vlad Skvortsov Subject: Re: rsaref package - where to get ? Message-ID: <20000824075401.A51628@dazed.slacker.com> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Vlad Skvortsov References: <20000824120518.B45600@ulstu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000824120518.B45600@ulstu.ru>; from vss@ulstu.ru on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:05:18PM +0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Aug-2000, Vlad Skvortsov wrote: >Where can I download rsaref package in order SSH from 4.1-R to >work ? Although you've already received the answer to your question, I can't help but mention that you probably want librsaintl if you're outside of the United States. (I noticed the .ru email address) rsaref is the implementation us yanks have to use due to the (soon to be gone) patent restrictions on the rsa algorithims. librsaintl is in all respects a better solution. To quote: [/usr/ports/security/librsaintl/pkg/DESCR] This port provides an optional plugin for /usr/lib/libcrypto.* to implement the RSA algorithm using the native EAY/OpenSSL optimized code. While libcrypto can use RSAREF, that package has severe restrictions including no commercial use. The OpenSSL RSA code has no such restrictions and is much faster and more flexible, but is thought to not be legally usable in the USA due to patents on the RSA algorithm. If you can legally use this port, you should it in preference to the RSAREF option for libcrypto. -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Birmingham, AL USA|Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message