Subject: Re: BIND 8.2 (was Re: CVS commit: src)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/1999 23:02:55
On 27 Mar 1999, Michael Graff wrote:

> bind 8.2 has rsa code.  I believe permission was granted to use it for
> DNSSEC, which is what bind 8.2 uses it for.  I'll have to check on that.

Oh dear. It still escapes me why people within the USA still insist on
implementing stuff they can't export to the world, or which is covered
by silly patents.

In any case, a reimplementation should be simple, since the civilised
world does not recognise the RSA patent, and in the USA it expires soon
anyway.

> --Michael
-Olaf.
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