On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 18:04:58 +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
> (2) It was an extremely dumb decision to make ssh2 incompatible
It was not possible to make it compatible and be freely implementable. SSH1
was hardwired to use RSA which is patented; AFAIK it had no possibility of
using another public key crypto algorithm.
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 13:49:52 -0500, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> 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.
You can use RSA free (for noncommercial use) in the USA provided you use
RSAREF, AFAIK.
Also, due to international intellectual property treaties this isn't only a
provincial concern.
> It would be really nice for us to have a 100% RSA-free ssh, so it could be
> free software in the US.
Of course.
Ray
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