>
> one problem seems to be a vague patent claim from Phoenix Technologies
> see http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/PHOENIX-SRP-RFC2945.txt
> (or the same discussion on openssh-unix-dev
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109144941700003&r=1&w=2 )
>
Right.
There are two different issues:
- what does Stanford allow according their patent
- that seems sufficiently clear to me, they provide even a free
implementation etc.
- what someone else claim against them or someone else.
- The religious debate among the entities about two
years ago is fun. One may be tempted to regard this
as an US-centric oligarchistic approach to keep
control on technology. Everybody except the patent
holders are afraid to do anything? Nice approach.
(i.e. a conspiration among the three parties).
- Some patent holders have already waited more than
10% of the lifetime of their patent in 'investigations',
let them continue the other 90%.
OpenSSL contained and contains patented algorithms, you may
or may not enable it.
Anyway, the next version of our mods will contain some more
detailed information about the patent issue.
Peter
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