Re: Software using the RSA Data Security, Inc. implementation of MD5 algorithm.

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Subject: Re: Software using the RSA Data Security, Inc. implementation of MD5 algorithm.
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:11:39 -0700
Message-id: <877hxf7xms.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
In-reply-to: <871vnnkoml.fsf@benfinney.id.au> (Ben Finney's message of "Sat\, 08 Aug 2009 12\:47\:46 +1000")
References: <20090806045555.GA32678@kunpuu.plessy.org> <e13a36b30908060413r3de1e661m555c49680f3a87d6@mail.gmail.com> <20090808022954.GE17276@kunpuu.plessy.org> <871vnnkoml.fsf@benfinney.id.au>

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> That's a great result.
>
> Can you suggest a means of searching for more occurrences of this bug
> (a non-free MD5 implementation in an otherwise-free work) in Debian?

The RSA-licensed MD5 implementation is not non-free.  It just has an
advertising clause.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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