In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Noel L Yap" wr
ites:
>I understand that OpenSSH is free so long it's not used in commercial products
>.
>Is the SSH protocol free as well (ie would I have to pay any royalty fees if I
>were to make my own commercial implementation)?
>
The SSH2 protocols are on their way to becoming Internet Proposed
Standards, and are therefore open to anyone to implement, so far as I
know. The Internet Drafts of interest are in
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts; see
draft-ietf-secsh-architecture-05.txt
draft-ietf-secsh-auth-kbdinteract-01.txt
draft-ietf-secsh-connect-07.txt
draft-ietf-secsh-transport-07.txt
draft-ietf-secsh-userauth-07.txt
and maybe draft-provos-secsh-dh-group-exchange-00.txt (this last is not
a product of the Secure Shell working group).
Note carefully that these are not yet RFCs, and hence are subject to
change.
--Steve Bellovin
