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Jonathan Zamick (JonathanZ@consensus.com)
Wed, 28 Feb 1996 21:52:18 -0800

At 8:20 PM 2/28/96, Housley, Russ wrote:
>Blake:
>
>At least three companies have MSP implementations that can be liscensed.
>
>Russ
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>Author:  "Blake Ramsdell" <Blaker@msn.com> at internet
>Date:    2/28/96 12:19 AM
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>> Further there is a good implementation of MOSS.  It was even announced at
>> the workshop.  Did you miss it?  TIS has done an implementation that is
>> available for anonymous FTP, albeit only within the US.  It's integrated
>> with MH, not the most favored mail user agent, but the current version has
>> shell scripts that perform minimal MIME functions to facilitate integration
>> with other agents.
>
>Is there a version that can be used in commercial applications?  There is for
>PGP, S/MIME, and (I think) for MSP.  From a developer's point of view, this
>will influence my decision between specifications.
>

There is indeed a commercial version of MOSS which is built off BSAFE. You
can also license the RSAREF version commercially I am told. The reason they
made the commercial version usable with BSAFE was because at the time
Consensus wasn't offering the commercial RSAREF license.

Jonathan

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