First off, let me congratulate you on inking this deal. I hope that this will make a lot of interesting things possible, now that there is an RSAref toolkit outside the US, and also for commercial use in the US. I have a few questions, which I hope you can answer publically. Will there be a public, standard fee schedule? Many companies would like to be able to use RSA technology for a fee, and would like to know what that fee is without having to explain their plans in great detail to RSA. I know people who would like to be able to say, heres a check, we're shipping software using RSAref to 5000 desktops. Will you be adding access points to the software? I know that PGP required new interfaces, previously unpublished, and that use of unpublished interfaces was also a problem RSA had with Wei Dai's excellent Crypto++ library. Adam Jonathan Zamick wrote: | Well I've vaccilated between making a formal, dry announcement or | letting you all know my way. Given the general tenor (and individual | spirit) of many on Toad it is pretty easy to guess which path I chose. | So, first of all, here is to a productive future for encryption and | encryption technologies. Consensus Development and RSA Data Security, | have finalized the contract for Consensus to license and support | RSAREF(tm) for commercial use. | Lastly, we would like to hear suggestions and ideas on how to improve | RSAREF. We intend to remain responsive to requests, and welcome ideas | for the evolution of the RSAREF toolkit. "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume