Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:40:35 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]Re: FW: Crypto |
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Dax/Bill,
Tha nks, I'll use the OpenSSL lib for the "official" release. I was waiting for this patent to expire before I could open source and NDS clone on Linux, and thought I'd wait and ask about the latest pki when the time approached. I'll go download the code ....
:-)
Jeff
Dax Kelson wrote: > > Jeff V. Merkey said once upon a time (Wed, 2 Aug 2000): > > > > > 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 > > The RSA patent doesn't expire until Sept 20th. We still have 49 days, 7 > hours and 39 minutes to go. :) > > As far as a BSafe equiv, check out http://www.openssl.org. > > "The OpenSSL crypto library implements a wide range of cryptographic > algorithms used in various Internet standards. The services provided by > this library are used by the OpenSSL implementations of SSL, TLS and > S/MIME, and they have also been used to implement SSH, OpenPGP, and other > cryptographic standards." > > Dax > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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