On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Harald Sundt wrote:
>
>Last month's British Maximum Linux and this month's Linux Journal is 
>dedicated to fire-walls and linux security.
>
>Also, in that September 20th is the end of the patent for RSA, does 
>that mean Mandrake 7.2 will come with crypto options bundled in and 
>GUI available?
>-- 

Actually, in a fit of `community spirit' that must have made RMS proud,
RSA Data Security released the patent last Thursday.  www.segfault.org
did a great story on the inspiration this provided to other patent holders
to release their stuff two weeks ahead of schedule...

-- 
"That time in Seattle... was a nightmare.  I came out of it dead broke,
without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of
UNIX."  "Well, that's something," Avi says.  "Normally those two are
mutually exclusive."                    --Neal Stephenson

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