From owner-freebsd-security Thu Dec 16 12:24:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB25155EF; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CBA1CC6; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:24:04 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Mark Murray , Kris Kennaway , security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH in the base (was Re: OpenSSL update) In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Fundakowski Feldman of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:37:37 EST." Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:24:04 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991216202404.92CBA1CC6@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > Sounds great. I hope this means I get to import OpenSSH! > > > > Hell, yes! > > > > I reckon it may be better to let me do it; that way I can get > > Internat and Freefall synchronised. > > We should discuss this and its ramifications on -security. I'll move > this there :) It's not a crypto export problem, it's the RSA patent that's the problem. Any code that isn't RSAREF based for RSA support is unusable in the US. I don't think OpenSSL linked against RSAREF is useable for OpenSSH. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message