>>>>> Matthew Vernon writes: MV> a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users
All SSH protocol version 1 implementations (including OpenSSH) use RSA, which is patented in the US. The only way to get around the patent issues is to use RSAREF, which is non-free. And so, US citizens would have to choose between violating the US patent, or using non-free software (other countries don't have to worry about the patent, by and large). SSH version 2 does not have to depend on RSA, and so truly free implementations may be written. The GNU Project has a free version of SSH 2, called lsh, written by Niels Moller. We expect to use it as soon as it supports enough features to recommend it to other people. The next release of lsh may satisfy this requirement, which I'm looking forward to. :) -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
