On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:54:28PM -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Markus Friedl wrote:
>
> > The RSA patent problem applies:
> > only in the US
> > only for commercial use
> > only until September 20th, 2000.
Add to the list:
only for people who don't want to use RSAREF (which is free for
anybody who is not selling software that contains it)
> Which is exactly where I fall for the next 4.5 months, and I refuse to be
> throwing unencrypted passwords across a cablemodem for any length of time.
I do sometimes wonder if after September 20th all opposition to RSA is
going to be dropped or if people are going to continue to argue against it
because of its past.
- Dave
