[1497] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Netscape SSL Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Young)
Mon Sep 15 19:21:42 1997
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:14:25 +1000 (EST)
From: Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>
Reply-To: Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>
To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
cc: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <341D80B6.4978816E@netscape.com>
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Tom Weinstein wrote:
> Adam Shostack wrote:
> > Since this was Hickman & ElGamal's work, does the fact that flaws in
> > the system required a protocol rewrite mean anything?
> >
> > Also, what does this do to the IETF TLS work, and was the IETF
> > notified of this by Netscape?
>
> It doesn't do anything to the TLS work, because we're going to try to do
> whatever it takes to make sure that TLS goes forward. I'll probably be
> able to say more in a couple days.
Well considering that the TLS 1.0 spec _is_ SSLv3, does this mean that
changing the name of the functions from SSL_ to TLS_ will fix the problem :-).
eric
