Re: new Linux Journal on open ssh and RSA patent ...

[Seth Cohn]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Harald Sundt wrote:

> 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?

RSA was released _early_ to the public domain.  Maybe for Mandrake, there
are still US export law issues.  In others words, you can get it from
other countries but can't give it to those countries. (which of course,
makes little sense)

k