SRP Support

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Tom Wu wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Can you be more specific about these "IP issues" you are referring to?
> Is the IETF royalty-free statement insufficiently clear?  AFAIK,
> Stanford *has* done precisely what you indicate by providing SRP in a
> 100% free and usable way, judging by adoption in other OSS software
> projects.
>

It is not Stanford we worry about.  It is Lucent and others that claim
that it may infringe on their patents.  You seem to forget about these
claims.

- Ben

> Tom
>
> Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> > Until all IP issues are resolved and it is provided in a 100% free and
> > usable way it will *NEVER* be included.
> >
> > - Ben
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Edward Flick wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Just wondering if there were any plans to integrate SRP support into
> >>OpenSSH.  And if there aren't would a patch be accepted that would enable
> >>such.  And if so could anyone give me a couple of pointers as to where the
> >>authentication code goes.
> >>
> >>Edward Flick
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