[gnutls-dev] Re: Fedora gnutls-1.0.20-5.src.rpm

Albert Chin gnutls-dev at mlists.thewrittenword.com
Sat Jan 22 08:42:31 CET 2005


On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 01:39:05AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> The latest development RPM from Fedora for gnutls-1.0.20 does not
> contain the SRP authentication code because of the following Changelog
> entry:
>   * Tue Sep  7 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj at redhat.com> 1.0.20-2
>   - patent tainted SRP code removed.
> 
> Is this correct? If so, should SRP be disabled from gnutls?

Seems there are some possible patent issues:
  http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg09292.html

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)




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