Gervase Markham wrote:
Nelson B wrote:
The problem with CRL DPs is the patent issue.
Who owns the patent or patents? Do you have a reference?
I think it likely that
CRL DP support will be implemented as a plugin for NSS, where the plugin
will not be open source nor freely available while the patent remains.
It could be distributed from a country where the patent was not valid.
At least then the rest of the world wouldn't have to suffer.
In practice that tends to be too expensive on the
project; maintaining different versions of distros
and so forth, while trying to stay legal in ones
own country is only for the really desparate of
revolutionaries.
If there is a patent, I'd say that kills the CRL DP
dead. I had a quick look on google and found that
there were other proposals that were "patent free"
but it certainly explains in part why CRLs haven't
taken off.
I wonder if the patent filer could be sued for
making the net insecure?
:-)
iang
--
News and views on what matters in finance+crypto:
http://financialcryptography.com/
_______________________________________________
mozilla-crypto mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
