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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:11:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Victor A. Salaman" <salaman@teknos.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: openssl in -current
Message-ID:  <200002212211.RAA05393@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1D45ABC754FB1E4888E508992CE97E4F059CE8@teknos.teknos.com>
References:  <1D45ABC754FB1E4888E508992CE97E4F059CE8@teknos.teknos.com>

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<<On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 03:12:26 -0400, "Victor A. Salaman" <salaman@teknos.com> said:

> Perhaps we should send e-mail to RSA to clarify this, and in light of this,
> ask for permission to distribute RSA with the base OS. Gee, we can get RSA
> anyway, so what's the point on making harder?

Heh.

A couple of years ago, RSA Data Security, Inc., was purchased by
another company, also in the security business.  The chairman of the
acquiring company told a reporter, ``All we were really after was an
RSA license, but it turned out to be easier to just buy the whole
company.''

-GAWollman

Disclaimer: I work for the assignee (``owner'') of the RSA patent.



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