On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote:
> | our users (by geography) from accessing it. However at least in the case
> | of OpenSSL (which I'm planning to import into internat when I go home to
> | australia next week :-) the two will have to be divergent due to the
> | patent restrictions on RSA.
>
> The RSA patent makes things a lot more difficult. If we do add some crypto
> into the kernel I suggest we use patent-free algorithms to start with.
This was actually part of an unrelated point I was making - RSA will
definitely not be going into the kernel anywhere at this point! In
general, we want the two crypto repositories to stay in sync which
generally means propagating from internat -> freefall, but we can't do it
for RSA.
Kris
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