Hi --
What I need, is a script interface to communicate to a remote
secure server. What I'm unwilling to do, is to pay $30K
to get it -- the last price I was quoted from RSA. I'm not a
big guy, and I'm not selling software; I just need some very
straightforward functionality.
It's funny; I think that the RSA patent is one of the very few
defensible software patents, seeing as how this was a very
real innovation (and leaving aside the fact that it may have
been invented independently by the British; they were unable
to reveal the fact until long after Rivest et al. had published).
But I also think this is fundamental technology that is
driving the e-commerce revolution, and it's in the public
interest that there be some alternative for folks like me who
just need some bare-bones functionality without paying the
big bucks. Or is that hopelessly stodgy and old-fashioned
of me?
--Linda Mundy
http://www.webtraders.com/
EKR wrote:
> Linda Mundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Has anyone else here seen this announcement from Spyrus:
> >
> > http://www.spyrus.com/content/pressroom/releases/1999/pr_ssl_pricing.html
> TLSGold would do the job for you but the API is different from
> OpenSSL so it would require a significant amount of integration
> work to plug it into a web server. If all you want is a single
> secure web server, you'd be better buying one.
>
> The only reason to buy the non-RSA version of TLSGold would be if
> you wanted support, since it does essentially the same job
> as OpenSSL.
>
> Cheers,
> -Ekr
>
> Disclaimer: I used to work for SPYRUS and was the primary author
> of TLSGold (what was then called the "SecureWeb Toolkit").
>
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