Hmm. OpenSSL has served us well for years it seems to me
-- ever since eay dropped out to become RSA Australia :-)

Adding the GPL religion/meme/virus to SSL/TLS gives me
serious heartburn... 

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Ed Kubaitis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CCSO - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
> > Don't construe this message as in any way taking sides in the "debate that never
> > ends".  Just a quick point of fact, that there is, indeed, an GPL, open-source
> > "competitor" to OpenSSL under development, called GNUTLS.  The URL is
> >
> >      <http://gnutls.hellug.gr/>
> >
> > (Disclaimers repeated - I'm just pointing out that it *exists* <g>)
> >
> > Jim R
> > Crypto Engineer
> > LockStar, Inc.
> >
> 
> >From the GNUTLS site:
> 
>   "You should view this as an alternative implementation of OpenSSL
>   (actually GNUTLS is closer to Eric Young's SSLEAY rather than
>   OpenSSL)."
> 
> What does this mean?
> 
>                   Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer
>                  The Kermit Project * Columbia University
>                612 West 115th St * New York, NY * 10025 * USA
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