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Re: crypto in non-free (again)



On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:18:03AM +0000, Ian Beckwith wrote:

> If I understand things correctly, their licenses would permit the
> move (ie meet the EAR requirements) , and in the case of rsaref2 and
> pgp5i, the only thing holding them in non-us is the RSA patent,
> which I believe expired in September 2000.

pgp5 isn't DFSG-free, if I remember well: It can be used only for
non-commercial purposes. Besides, the Unix has a bug in the way it
reads /dev/random that make keys generated by it non-secure.

-- 
Lionel



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