From: Ryan Smith-Roberts <rsr@lab.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:33:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: How to Compete under Clipper-3
In-Reply-To: <199610031925.PAA11450@jekyll.piermont.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961003161257.20336B-100000@Citadel.Lab.NET>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> For those that don't follow this, people who don't want to have their
> communications listened in on are free to buy high quality
> communications security products from SSH Communications Security, Ltd.
> Their stuff is distributed internationally by Datafellows, and
> includes 3DES, 128 bit IDEA, and plenty of other high quality crypto
> products -- you configure it for the cipher of your choice. Key
> management is handled with arbitrary key length RSA -- you, the user,
> tune the length of the key, not the NSA.
> 
> The software is available free for noncommercial use and can be
> downloaded on the net. Commercial users must pay a license fee.

And if anyone is so inclined, Alan Cox is/was working on taking the last
set of free(*) ssh source (1.2.13) and bugfixing it to keep in step with
the commercial distribution (at least).

You'll still have to pay for the Windows SSH client, though.

* That's GNU free, folkx

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