Subject: Re: cryptosrc-intl
To: None <tech-security@netbsd.org, netbsd-intl@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-security
Date: 07/18/1999 17:04:03
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel S Riley <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu> writes:
Daniel> jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:
>> } > } rc5 (patented in the US by RSA) } > } rsa (patented in the US) }
>> > } dsa (patent claimed by RSA in the US) } >
Daniel> [...]
>> Although, the US is a fairly large country, I didn't realise that it
>> constituted a large chunk of the world. Nobody has made any claim
>> that the above items are patented anywhere other then the US.
Daniel> Schnorr has US, EU and Japaneses patents, licensed to RSA, that
Daniel> he claims cover DSA[1]--so DSA isn't US only.
Daniel> [1] http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/letters/SchnorrMar98.html
1) do I keep DSA?
2) if I do, do I make it build optionally?
3) if I do, can someone explain why we whatever arguments apply to
DSA don't apply to RSA, and IDEA?
I want to emphasis that the question is:
"do I keep the *SOURCE* code"
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