OpenSSH SRP 3.8.1p1 patch

[Andreas]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:49:28PM -0700, Tom Wu wrote:
> >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.

Here is an email that talks about these issues from the point of view of
an implementation in Kerberos:

http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2004-January/002251.html

I guess they don't want to be the first to implement it and see if it will
attract heat from lawyers.