[TCLCORE] Re: TLS 1.4 release imminent - sanity check

[Jeffrey H. <jef...@aj...>]

> From: mc...@mt...
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> Jeffrey Hobbs wrote:
> > 
> > I'm preparing to make a 1.4 release of TLS.  One big change is that
> > TLS will no longer compile against Tcl 8.0-8.1.  I've added the
	...
> Will a TLS 1.4 distribution be made available via the dev.scriptics.com
> software library, i.e. outside of CVS?  Not everyone uses CVS or can't
	...

Yes, a proper .tar.gz archive will be made available on the Scriptics
FTP site.  I was thinking of creating the URL:
	ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/encryption/tls/tls1.4.tar.gz

Perhaps just "crypt" instead of "encryption"?  We're hoping to start
a proper archive of extensions, so something that would useful for
other extensions would be nice.  Of course, it would be nice to have
it web-driven, which might make the FTP url meaningless.

	...
> Yes, the patent for RSA will expire at that point.  The patents for
> RC5 and IDEA will still be in effect.  A binary distribution of OpenSSL
> that is patent-free can be created by running the configuration script:
> 
>   ./config no-rc5 no-idea
> 
> This, of course is only true after September 20, 2000.  Prior to that
> date, that exercise is best left up to the interested user.

Yeah, I think it would be nice to have a binary for major platforms,
but an openssl without RSA at this point would be rather useless...

Jeff

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