RE: RSA Patent Expired

And as soon as they put in all the features that SSH1 has and can get a functioning SSH2 client, I will do exactly that.

-----Original Message----- From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwelty@vpnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:32 AM To: Bill Fumerola; Hendrik Visage Cc: Bradly Walters; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: RSA Patent Expired

Bill Fumerola [mailto:billf@chimesnet.com] wrote:

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OpenSSH uses RSA for ssh1, so it too benefited greatly from RSA's release of the code into the public domain.

except that nobody should be using ssh1 for _anything_ if they can possibly avoid it. even the orginal authors of ssh are strongly advocating consigning ssh1 to the trash heap of computer security.

richard