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Embedded OpenBSD Running the Stallion ePipe

Posted by Nik on from the NP:-the-sound-of-my-backup-tapes dept.

Louis Bertrand noted that in another win for free software, OpenBSD can now be found in the guts of the Stallion ePipe, a dial-up network gateway, a little like the IBM InterJet we mentioned a few days ago. Playing to OpenBSD's strengths, the core processor is a Motorola ColdFire 5307 VL-RISC chip, and the encryption is provided by OpenBSD's built-in encryption code. They've even written a cooperative press release about it, complete with OpenBSD's very cool blowfish.

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  1. Patents are bad by Romen · · Score: 4

    Unfortunately, it seems like our good poster failed to notice that Stallion has committed the ultimate sin - they have applied for a software patent.
    To quote the press release
    "Stallion has applied for a patent for E2B."
    E2B appears to be simply a method for hardening the connection to the ISP. I don't know nearly enough about security, and they don't tell nearly enough about their technology, to have a reasonable opinion about this patent, but my knee-jerk reaction to it would be opposition, as it is a software patent.


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