OpenSSH SRP 3.8.1p1 patch

[Tom Wu]

Andreas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:10:41AM -0700, andrewg at felinemenace.org wrote:
> 
>>The below url is an updated patch of Professor Tom's earlier SRP patches for
>>SSH. The only things changed was so that it would compile on a newer openssh 
>>version. For more information regarding SRP, see http://srp.stanford.edu
> 
> 
> Isn't this patented by Phoenix Technologies Ltd?
> http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/PHOENIX-SRP-RFC2945.txt

No, that is only an offer to license under RAND terms IF some technology 
is covered under the SPEKE patent.  There has not been any claim or 
substantiation that SPEKE technology covers the math used in SRP.

Tom

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