SRP unencumbered license statement

Tom Wu tom at arcot.com
Wed May 2 04:40:27 EST 2001


RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
>         The Stanford IPR release to IETF is clear and says that
> bi-directional authentication mode (SRP-Z) requires a
> separate licence, and is not free.  Only implicit server
> authentication mode is free.

Tom H's code does implicit server authentication.  It's free and clear. 
For the record, Niels M's code is also based on implicit server
authentication.

Tom
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