RSA Party?

[Joel Schneider <jts@tc.umn.edu>]

Anyone planning any RSA festivities (http://www.shmoo.com/rsa/)?

The RSA algorithm was recently released into the public domain
(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/06/1252204), only slightly
prior to the expiration of RSA's patent.  However, the full implications
of this event only dawned on me after reading about it in the October
issue of Linux Journal ("Goodbye Bandits, Hello Security").

Because of this, and because of the recent relaxation of U.S. export
restrictions regarding crypto software for which source code is made
freely available, future Linux distributions will be able to freely
include software such as OpenSSH and OpenSSL.  In addition, it will be
possible to tightly integrate strong encryption into software such as
Apache and Mozilla.

Woohoo!

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