Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:29:39 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]Re: FW: Crypto |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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 > > Late september I thought >
Actually, he's right, but probably not for the reason he thinks: the patent on public key cryptography itself (the Diffie-Hellmann patent) expired a few years ago. The patent on the widely-used RSA public key algorithm expires 7 weeks from now.
> > 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. > > OpenSSL has a lot of that stuff
-- <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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