From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 26 08:01:14 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA16409 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:01:14 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA16402 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:01:12 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA18314; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:01:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:01:09 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9506261501.AA18314@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crypt code summary(2). In-Reply-To: <199506261450.HAA15673@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199506260910.CAA03201@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> <199506261450.HAA15673@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > SSL is implemented in NetScape. It's unlikely to change at all. Which makes it all the more more important that we wait to see what really ends up getting standardized. One company's proprietary software may not get implemented by other vendors. More importantly, the technology is subject to patents in the US and probably other countries where such patents are legal. I don't want to see FreeBSD dragged into even more legal difficulties than we have already had. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant