From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 2 22: 9:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E62015360 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:09:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11itbf-0005DS-00; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 23:09:16 -0700 Message-ID: <381FD189.32B337BF@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 23:09:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: Dug Song , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSH patches References: <199911021749.JAA10864@tao.thought.org> <99Nov3.073050est.40337@border.alcanet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 1999-Nov-03 06:02:44 +1100, Dug Song wrote: > >from OpenBSD's ssl(8): > > > >BUGS > > According to "Applied Cryptography: Schneier" the RSA patent will > > expire September 20th, 2000. > > > > Patents can be renewed. > > Unless someone's snuck a radical change to Patent Law through recently, > this isn't true. Patents automatically pass into the public domain > after 17(?) years. Yup. Several companies including Microsoft and RSA are lobbying various Congress critters to change this to 70 (!) years. Scroom. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message