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 -- \/\ Lab.NET | Ryan Smith-Roberts - I speak for Lab.NET, so NYAAH! /\/ we do | rsr@lab.net - http://www.lab.net/~rsr \/\ stuff | JAFuckingP/JH - finger/www for PGP key It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.