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Subject:    Re: OpenBSD/NTRU policy mismatch [Was: NTRU Open Source Project / Post-quantum era]
From:       "ertetlen barmok" <ertetlenbarmok () Safe-mail ! net>
Date:       2015-05-28 12:54:22
Message-ID: N1-BQifsYZmAX () Safe-mail ! net
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thanks for the comments!

Luckily there are still a few algorithms if NTRU is not good yet: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

As time goes, maybe this will be a more and more relevant thing. 

-------- Original Message --------
From: Okembe Mbwambo <okembe.mbwambo@yandex.com>
Apparently from: owner-tech+M42231@openbsd.org
To: tech@openbsd.org
Subject: OpenBSD/NTRU policy mismatch [Was: NTRU Open Source Project / Post-quantum \
                era]
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:50:29 +0200

> On 25/05/15 02:50:50 PM, Douglas Ray wrote:
> 
> > 2. The "FOSS exception" clause above won't help with existing
> > OpenBSD policy, insofar as I understand it here:
> > 	http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
> > [note section towards end on GPL under "Specific Cases"]
> 
> FWIW, a BSD-licensed NTRU implementation exists at \
> https://github.com/tbuktu/libntru and while it is patent encumbered, it offers a \
> compile switch that causes it to become patent free in 2017 as opposed to the GPL \
> implementation which will be patent encumbered until 2020. 
> Okembe


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