Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-09 Thread Wes Peters
"Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote: > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: > > : RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain > > > > Note that other information at the site says that RSAREF isn't > > released into the public domain. It

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: > Mike Silbersack wrote: > > Ok, now I have a question. Using STARTTLS with sendmail is obviously OK > > for us, since sendmail got the export liscense. However, AFAIK, qmail and > > postfix have obtained no such permission. > > Postfix has done the BXA h

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > > > http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html > > > > RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain > > Ok, now I have a question. Using STARTTLS with sendmail is obviously OK > for us, since sendma

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Julian Stacey
> Somehow I rather doubt they're trying to trick people into using RSA for > the next week, and then going on a mass lawsuit spree. No idea about RSA motives, but "Submarice patents" are a well known strategem. AFAIR owners of compress.c registered it, then published it, & only years later tried

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: > : RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain > > Note that other information at the site says that RSAREF isn't > released into the public domain. Its use is still governed by >

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Jim Sander
From the rsa website (the quiz, hey- who can resist a free T-Shirt) there is the following tidbit... > With the patent expiration, software developers are now free to develop > their own implementation of the RSA algorithm from scratch. However, > RSA BSAFE and RSAREF code is still proprietary

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > > > [1] The press release talk about RSADSI "waiving its > > rights to enforce the RSA patent for any development > > activities" > > > > This is very cunning as the patent never actually > > covered d

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html > > RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain Ok, now I have a question. Using STARTTLS with sendmail is obviously OK for us, since sendmail got the export liscense. However, AFA

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote: > Somehow I rather doubt they're trying to trick people into using RSA for > the next week, and then going on a mass lawsuit spree. Ugh, please forgive my poor English. It's before noon. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > [1] The press release talk about RSADSI "waiving its > rights to enforce the RSA patent for any development > activities" > > This is very cunning as the patent never actually > covered development. Instead it covers usage an

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: > : RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain > > Note that other information at the site says that RSAREF isn't > released into the public domain. Its use is still governed by > copyright law, so

Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: : RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain Note that other information at the site says that RSAREF isn't released into the public domain. Its use is still governed by copyright law, so we'll have to use the internationa

FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

2000-09-06 Thread Warner Losh
http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain Maybe this means that the breakage in -current won't last too long :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body