Thanks,
:-)
Jeff
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > Since the patents have now expired for public/private key stuff held by
> > > RSA, do you know if anyone ported a PKI to Linux open sourced with the
> >
> > Late september I thought
> >
>
> Actually, he's right, but probably not for the reason he thinks: the patent on public key cryptography itself (the Diffie-Hellmann patent) expired a few years ago. The patent on the widely-used RSA public key algorithm expires 7 weeks from now.
>
> > > other crypto stuff? Is there a BSafe equivalent around now that you
> > > know of? If so, I can get my NDS clone out the door on Linux.
> >
> > OpenSSL has a lot of that stuff
>
> --
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> "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
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