Re: OpenSSL usage liability, RHSWS, and toothbrushes

1999-11-22 Thread Dave Neuer
t you've advised people that they really don't need to be concerned with whether or not they're violating some other company's patent rights. Your demeanor suggests that you don't take such things seriously (c.f. your exhoration to me to "lighten up")

Re: What US companies need to know about RSA

1999-09-28 Thread Dave Neuer
e local Circle K (or stealing intellectual property in the form of a software patent, if you want my opinion), regardless of whatever rational argument you want to put behind it. Maybe it's *you* who should stop talking. Regards, Dave Neuer THESE VIEWS DEFINITELY DON'T REFLEC

Re: What US companies need to know about RSA

1999-09-20 Thread Dave Neuer
Aaron D. Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Dave Neuer wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Aaron D. Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Stunnel Maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL P

Re: What US companies need to know about RSA

1999-09-20 Thread Dave Neuer
loyees. None of this >is stuff that I make any money off of directly- ie. I'm not trying to >sell anything with SSL or RSA in it If this is the case (ie, it's not part of a product or service you sell), why not just use RSARef? You can't get it from

Re: Legalities of Using openssl in the US

1999-07-12 Thread Dave Neuer
u can modify it to fix bugs or add features. But you can't do any of these things in the US if you see one penny from these activities in any way, shape, or form and haven't paid RSA somewhere in the tens of thousands of dollars. Dave Neuer -Original Message- From: Michael J. Ma

Re: using ssl with Perl LWP

1999-06-23 Thread Dave Neuer
LWP currently doesn't have a protocol handler for HTTPS, only HTTP. You'd have to roll your own, though there may be a Perl interface for OpenSSL to make it easier. Dave Neuer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMA

Re: Linux

1999-05-11 Thread Dave Neuer
mod_ssl requires at least one small tweak to run on Linux + Glibc2.1 (I and others I know of ran into one particular one -- ndbm.h has moved --, but I'd not be surprised if there are more). Dave Neuer -Original Message- From: Massimiliano Pala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAI

Re: RSA licensing for OpenSSL usage?

1999-04-30 Thread Dave Neuer
When a patent expires, it ceases to be enforceable, period. -Original Message- From: Eric Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 5:35 PM Subject: Re: RSA licensing for OpenSSL usage? >>> This may or may not mean that you can u

Proposal -- better patent FAQ/patent-specific mailing list

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Neuer
on this list as at least half of the answers they get will either be incomplete, wrong or more questions. I welcome any comments, corrections, clarifications, and suggestions. Dave Neuer Software Engineer Futuristics Labs, Inc. _

Re: While there is a discussion on RSA

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Neuer
-Original Message- From: Leland V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 3:08 PM Subject: Re: While there is a discussion on RSA >At 10:24 AM 4/28/99 -0400, Dave

Re: While there is a discussion on RSA

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Neuer
E from RSADSI, or buy a commercial Apache+SSL (from C2Net, Covalent, or Red Hat). Dave Neuer __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RSA licensing for OpenSSL usage?

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Neuer
se then their patches which provided the interface to the ssl module wouldn't apply correctly). Of course, Stronghold (at the time that I used it) came with a $1000 price tag, as opposed to RHSWS's $100 price. With

Re: RSA licensing for OpenSSL usage?

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Neuer
The patents for the RSA algorithms expire in September of 2000. Dave Neuer -Original Message- From: Ross Foard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: RSA licensing for OpenSSL usage? >Does anyone

Re: RSARef No Longer Available (Was RSAref in the US)

1999-04-20 Thread Dave Neuer
e to the conclusion >that I had when I started. RSAref was never intended for commercial use, >strictly academic. So, due to the fact that I am 1300 miles and a firewall >away from my development machine, does openSSL support DH and/or DSA? > >Thank

Re: RSARef No Longer Available (Was RSAref in the US)

1999-04-14 Thread Dave Neuer
s, DON'T SEE ANY REVENUE, and have express written permission from RSADSI for any changes that you make to the API. *I'm not a lawyer*, but it seems like everything you describe is permissible under the license, provided you document all of your changes, provide the source and all of

Re: RSARef No Longer Available (Was RSAref in the US)

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Neuer
That's correct; however, if you already had an RSAref distribution, the license states that your license is perpetual. Additionally, the license for the 2.0 distribution of RSAref appears to allow redistribution of RSAref (called "the Program" in the license agreement), provided that 1) you provi

Re: RSAref in the US

1999-04-12 Thread Dave Neuer
/~schlafly/ -- Schafly's site w/ lots of legal filings, etc. http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/html/6-3-2.html -- RSA's patent claims on DSA Dave Neuer -Original Message- From: Ricardo Stella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 12,

Re: OpenSSL usage liability, RHSWS, and toothbrushes

1999-01-16 Thread Dave Neuer
discreet crypto lib lying around on their system that they could try to put to arbitrary uses. I feel I must repeat, "I AM NOT A LAWYER." However, I'd suggest anyone adhering to the idea that licensing a particular RSA implementation gives them any rights to the algorithm itsel