From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 13 23:04:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA19136 for security-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA19070 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA02841; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:02:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:02:24 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Assar Westerlund cc: Bill Paul , Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure RPC revisited In-Reply-To: <5ld8xhb4y3.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 14 Nov 1996, Assar Westerlund wrote: > 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.) THe algorithms are export controlled. PKP is probably not allowed to export the algorithm for the purposes of obtaining a patent! Danny