Date: 14 Nov 1996 06:50:44 +0100 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure RPC revisited Message-ID: <5ld8xhb4y3.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Bill Paul's message of Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:44:09 -0500 (EST) References: <199611132044.PAA25158@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> writes: > > I thought SSH also used diffie hellman. It seems they don't have a problem. > > I'm not sure it's the same, although I wouldn't mind being proven wrong. I believe SSH uses RSA. > > Exactly *where* is the patent living? If it is only in the states, we > > might just install it on the internat repository? > > > I confess that I don't know enough about patent law to say how much of > this nonsense applies outside the U.S. Diffie-Hellman is only patented in the US and Canada. And those patents will expire the 27th of April 1997. (It's unfortunately not the case that you cannot have such silly patents outside of the US, just that the most common encryption algorithms are not patented there.) /asar
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