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Re: Document Action: 'US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)' to Informational RFC

2006-02-07 09:43:48
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Simon Josefsson wrote:
    NEW:

      This document provides the Internet community convenient
      access to source code that implements the United States of
      America Federal Information Processing Standard Secure Hash
      Algorithms (SHAs) [FIPS 180-2] and HMACs based upon these
      one-way hash functions.  See license in Section 1.1.

The license in section 1.1 reads:

  Royalty free license to copy and use this software is granted
  provided that this document is identified in all material
  mentioning or referencing this software.

The bigger problem with this is IMHO that I don't think RFCs are supposed to contain IPR disclosures, licenses, or whatever.

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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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