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  • Subject: Re: Cryptography in tn5250
  • From: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:44:43 -0500 (CDT)


I thought the export limitations were already gone, and the RSA patent
expired at the end of August?   

At least, FreeBSD's development team is no longer forcing people to be
USA residents to get the DES crypto distributions, as of the start of
this month.   

And they've referenced the fact that in the next release (which will be in
September or October) they won't have to worry about having seperate
RSAref libraries for international and US.

I don't know the facts, myself, however.  So someone should find out for
sure before doing it. :)



On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Barry L. Kline wrote:

> Hi Jason...
> 
> I was wondering if anything ever happened along these lines?  Can
> tn5250 take advantage of the AS/400 SSL like the CA/400 product now
> does?
> 
> Barry
> 
> "Jason M. Felice" wrote:
> > 
> > I'm watching the cryptography movement of the US government, and it appears,
> > according to slashdot.org, that US citizens can soon export cryptographic 
>source
> > code "without technical review" so long as the BXA is notified.  I'm not 
>sure
> > what the BXA is.  This is not yet final.
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > If we can work this out, I will have an OpenSSL-enabled 5250 client avaiable
> > as soon as legally allowed.
> > 
> > -Jay
> > 
> > P.S. Last I heard, the RSA patent expires in February or March of this
> > year.  Which means that if everything goes well, there is going to be some
> > kick-butt free software real soon.

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