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

2006-02-07 13:50:17


On Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:15:18 PM -0500 Russ Housley <housley(_at_)vigilsec(_dot_)com> wrote:

Most RFCs do not contain source code.  The IESG discussed this situation,
and felt that the explicit licenses was the right thing to do in this
situation.  Including source code without any indication of the authors
intent seemed much worse.

I fail to see the difference between this case and that of RFC1321.
That was also an informational document describing a hash algorithm originally specified outside the IETF. It also included a reference implementation, under remarkably similar license terms. It was right to publish that document in 1992, and it is just as right to publish this one today.

-- Jeff

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