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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Scott Klement wrote: > I thought the export limitations were already gone, and the RSA patent > expired at the end of August? Not for another 42 days :) From http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/6-3-1.html: RSA is patented under U.S. Patent 4,405,829...the patent expires 17 years after issue...on September 20, 2000. > 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. They're including DES in the base distribution because the export restrictions have been relaxed by the U.S. government. Different crypto issue. Cheers, Mick +--- | This is the LINUX5250 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to LINUX5250@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to LINUX5250-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to LINUX5250-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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