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Commercial RSAref
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new interfaces, previously unpublished, and that use of unpublished interfaces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