On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
> |putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html
>
> Won't do RSA authentication in the future, it's explicitly on the
> non-wish list.
I hate to be provincial, but 5% of the world's population (including
me) lives in the USA, and we need a patent license to use RSA around
here. It would be really nice for us to have a 100% RSA-free ssh, so
it could be free software in the US.
This is even more important with the current political situation -- it
is absolutely vital that the use of strong cryptography to protect the
integrity of data communications against computer vandals become very
widespread in the next year or so, or there is a very real danger that
our government may criminalize the use of cryptography. This would
obviously cause severe damage to the security of our information
infrastructure.
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Computers are the tools of the devil. It is as simple as that. There is no
monotheism strong enough that it cannot be shaken by Unix or any Microsoft
product. The devil is real. He lives inside C programs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
