From: Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@nb.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00:09 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Attorneys: RSA patent invalid
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At 05:29 PM 23/07/97 -0700, you wrote:
>$25K upfront is prohibitively expensive for freeware and
>for garage-shop programmers.  It's a drop in the bucket for a 
>large project such as Netscape that wants to add some security,
>but in a 3-person-month email widget it's excessive.
>
>On the other hand, it's now possible to license RSAREF for a much
>more reasonable fee from Concentric; I think it's just per-copy
>rather than a big up-front hit.

As of March, 1997 Consensus Development (www.consensus.com) stopped
licensing RSAREF for a very reasonable amount (~$200 US + 2-3% range I
think it was??) 

Consensus' "SSL Plus" toolkit requires licensee to also license BSAFE from
RSADSI. 

Maybe too many people were using commerical RSAREF licenses rather than the
BSAFE toolkit.

-M