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! -- Joel Schneider SIGN the Mars Petition: jts at tc.umn.edu http://www.thinkmars.net/petition.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org