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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2764] www.netrek.org down for Y2K upgrades



Quoting Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>:
> 
> All this talk of authentication begs the question, do we want to revisit
> the topic of the current RSA scheme?

Maybe we should table this for a week and let everybody come back from
Holiday Vacations and/or Y2K babysitting.

And does anybody know what will happen to res-rsa when the RSA patent
runs out in a couple of years, coupled with the on-again-off-again
easeing of ITAR restrictions on the pidly 56bit RSA encryption?

--Carlos V.