On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Sidney Markowitz wrote:
> Does this prevent free software interoperability with Suite B standards?
> It potentially could be used to block non-US vendors, certainly anyone
> who is in the US Government's disfavor, but it seems to me that even
> with no further intentional actio
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sidney Markowitz writes:
>
>The possible twist that I see is if the NSA declares that any freely
>available open source software that interoperates with Suite B is by
>definition "in support of US national security interests" and therefore
>automatically gets one of
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> U, no. The NSA only licensed the right to use (and sublicense under
> special circumstances) the patents
[...]
> [snip the rest, it was based on a failed assumption]
Poor phrasing on my part. Exactly as you said, the patent sublicense
cannot be passed on even if the co
- Original Message -
From: "Sidney Markowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NSA Suite B Cryptography
Ian G wrote:
Which is to say, NSA solved its problem and it
is nothing to do with FOSS.
If you wrote a Suite B program and distributed it under a BSD license
aft
Ian G wrote:
> Which is to say, NSA solved its problem and it
> is nothing to do with FOSS.
If you wrote a Suite B program and distributed it under a BSD license
after getting a sub-license for the patent from the NSA, presumably I
could take that code, modify it, and then in order to use or distr
Ben Laurie wrote:
> Incidentally, why the focus on GPL?
Because the NSA's assurances that their license would cover open source
software is probably good enough to allow you to write and contribute
code to a non-GPL open source project if they do not have specific rules
against accepting patent-en
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Precisely. NSA's actions here are independent of whether or not they
> like open source software on other criteria. They've determined that
> ECC presents a better cost-benefit tradeoff. We all understand, I
> think, why they're not enamored with
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian G writes:
>
>Which is to say, NSA solved its problem and it
>is nothing to do with FOSS.
>
Precisely. NSA's actions here are independent of whether or not they
like open source software on other criteria. They've determined that
ECC presents a better cost-b
Sidney Markowitz wrote:
Excerpt from
"Fact Sheet on NSA Suite B Cryptography"
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_suite_b.cfm
"NSA has determined that beyond the 1024-bit public key cryptography in
common use today, rather than increase key sizes beyond 1024-bits, a
swi
Sidney Markowitz wrote:
Excerpt from
"Fact Sheet on NSA Suite B Cryptography"
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_suite_b.cfm
"NSA has determined that beyond the 1024-bit public key cryptography in
common use today, rather than increase key sizes beyond 1024-bits, a
swi
Excerpt from
> "Fact Sheet on NSA Suite B Cryptography"
> http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_suite_b.cfm
"NSA has determined that beyond the 1024-bit public key cryptography in
common use today, rather than increase key sizes beyond 1024-bits, a
switch to elliptic curve te
"Fact Sheet on NSA Suite B Cryptography"
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_suite_b.cfm
Perry
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