Re: Reachout 8.4x

[crispin () WIREX COM (Crispin Cowan)]

Alex Martin wrote:

> > I am a little curious why these companies don't use Diffie-Hellman to
> > generate a session key for use with tripleDES or IDEA or ... and encrypt
> > *eveyrthing*, saving themselves a lot of hassle in the meantime.
> >
> > Does anyone have reasons why this hasn't been done? (And if Symantec et
> > al do wish to implement it, could they give me some royalties? :)
>
> As I know Diffie-Hellman protocol has royalties.

Diffie-Hellman was patented, but that patent expired in 1997.  DH is now
royalty-free.

Crispin
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