From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 15 2:41:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl (schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl [130.89.238.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF55B1508A for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from wit395301.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.235.121]:36363 "EHLO vangelderen.org" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:41:03 +0200 Message-ID: <37DF6966.81B5B9AB@vangelderen.org> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:39:50 +0200 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: David Schwartz , jcwells@u.washington.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New bind not completely open source... why GPL is not always References: <199909150349.UAA15819@usr06.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > It is obvious to me that the reason for the license restriction > > > is to obtain a special dispensation for RSA for the use of its > > > US software patents and code licensed thereof in free software. > > > > I'm quite curious why they simply didn't use other algorithms > > (such as MD5, DSS and DH) that are free from patent restrictions. > > As far as I know, there's nothing you can do with the patented > > encryption algorithms that you can't do without them. > > MD-5 is an RSA patented algorithm, as is MD-4. "The MD5 algorithm is being placed in the public domain for review and possible adoption as a standard." "The MD4 algorithm is being placed in the public domain for review and possible adoption as a standard." Even if they were patented, one could use SHA(-1) or RIPEMD-160 or Tiger. Cheers, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org Interesting read: http://www.vcnet.com/bms/ JLF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message