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SKIP source release now available
Folks,
We are pleased to announce the free public availability of Sun's
implementation of SKIP in source form.
Important points about this release that should be highlighted
are:
- This implementation can be used in commercial products, free
of charge, subject to the restrictions described in the software
and patent license statements.
- Since this is the season of giving, we are also pleased to announce
free commercial use of the Stanford public key patents (which cover
Diffie-Hellman, DSA and public key in general) to users/OEMs of this
package.
Sun Microsystems and Cylink have negotiated an agreement by means of
which Sun can sublicense commercial use of the Stanford public key patents
to the SKIP user and developer community free of charge. For precise details
of this license, please consult the README.PATENT file in the SKIP source
directory.
- In addition to the free use of Stanford patents, there is also a free for
commercial use implementation of a high speed bignum package, used for
Diffie-Hellman, etc. (Check the file BN_SOFTWARE_LICENSE for precise details
on the terms of this license.) Thanks are due to Colin Plumb and Phillip
Zimmerman for this software.
This means that the community can acquire the source code, port it
for use on their platform or inside commercial products without
paying any royalties to either Sun or Cylink, subject to the
terms of the software and patent licenses.
Other details:
- For details on downloading the software, point your browser to:
http://skip.incog.com
- It includes ASN.1 software for encoding/decoding X.509
certificates. An implementation of X.509 certs for SKIP is
included. Future releases will support other certificate
types popular in the Internet community.
- It includes support for ESP with DES and triple DES.
AH will be supported in future releases.
- GUI tools to administer and control the software.
- For more information on release details, consult the README
file in the source package.
For questions, bug reports or request for help, send mail to
freeskip@incog.com
Enjoy,
Ashar, Tom, Hemma, Martin, Joseph.
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