On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Ben Nagy wrote:
> strong as RSA (8 days to go!). In real life, though, that's not how you'd
Actually, RSA freed the algorithm 7 days early, it's already unencumbered.
My guess is that it was an attempt to stop the negative press from the
parties that will happen on the 20th, but that's pure conjecture. If they
really wanted to capture goodwill, they'd have unencumbered it a lot more
than a week early. RSA is already in GPG in a beta release, with RSA
certs coming pretty darned soon.
That only leaves us with 7 years of IDEA, but _at_least_ their licensing
terms aren't as exhorbitant as RSAs were for individuals, internal
developers and people who don't trust closed implementations.
> The one with racing stripes!
>
> Good to see you back, Paul! However, you should know that SecurID must win -
> red ones go faster. ;)
Who says you can't put red stripes on your certificates? Plus, how do
you know that SecureID tokens aren't red with blue stripes? ;)
Paul
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