Just to be "really clear" The RSA Patents DO NOT expire until Sept (I can
find an exact date, but I don't have it handy just now)
I don't want anyone doing anything illegal in the next two months based on
the below statement <G>
Bill
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff V. Merkey [mailto:jmerkey@timpanogas.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:02 PM
> To: H. Peter Anvin
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: [OFFTOPIC]Re: FW: Crypto
>
>
>
> Hey Peter,
>
> Related question.
>
> 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
> 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.
>
> :-)
>
> Jeff
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> >
> > Followup to:
> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008021516370.18299-100000@asdf.capslock.lan>
> > By author: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@meteng.on.ca>
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
> > > You've got my vote. ;o) I believe that the 2.5 kernel will
> > > start including crypto. The US law changes happened too late for
> > > it to happen in 2.3. We'll just have to wait and see...
> > >
> >
> > Note that the crypto patches are now actually available on
> > kernel.org. This is a preliminary step before actually integrating
> > them.
> >
> > -hpa
> > --
> > <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
> > "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
> > http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt
> >
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