Re: gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:16:34AM -0400 or thereabouts, E. Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
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> [I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so please cc me on responses.]
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> After about September 20, the RSA patent has expired in the USA.
> Also, earlier this year, the USA finally relaxed its export laws
> concerning encryption software. (There are still some places where
> you can't export encryption, but it's not nearly as bad as it once
> was.)
>
> With this change, there have been a number of positive developments in
> the open-source world. For example, gnupg 1.0.3 now supports RSA.
> Also, RedHat 7.0 includes stunnel, openssl, openssh, apache's mod_ssl,
> an ssl-aware smbclient, and perhaps other software that uses the RSA
> algorithm, and since 6.2, Kerberos, gnupg, and the 128-bit version of
> Netscape have been included.
>
> As far as I can tell, Debian has not moved any of these things out of
> non-free/non-US even for the unstable distribution. Are there plans
> to do this? If not, why not? I'd be grateful if someone could shed
> some light on this issue.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm brand new to Debian (just trying it this
> weekend for the first time) but I've been using Linux since 1992 and
> UNIX in general since 1987, so I apologize if this has been discussed
> already.... I did search the October archives of this list before
> posting...
>
> Thanks
>
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> E. Jay Berkenbilt (ejb@ql.org) | http://www.ql.org/q/
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There's now an ongoing vote among developers on what to do with non-free/non-US
software thus affecting the Social Contract. Check the social contract after
this month.
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