On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:08:52AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > >>>>> Matthew Vernon writes: > > MV> a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users > > All SSH protocol version 1 implementations (including OpenSSH) use > RSA, which is patented in the US. The only way to get around the > patent issues is to use RSAREF, which is non-free. And so, US > citizens would have to choose between violating the US patent, or > using non-free software (other countries don't have to worry about the > patent, by and large). > > SSH version 2 does not have to depend on RSA, and so truly free > implementations may be written. The GNU Project has a free version of > SSH 2, called lsh, written by Niels Moller. We expect to use it as > soon as it supports enough features to recommend it to other people. > > The next release of lsh may satisfy this requirement, which I'm > looking forward to. :)
OpenSSH does ssh2 in cvs now... Will probably be released in a few months. It uses dsa by default, but still supports rsa. Ian
