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| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 6 | ||||
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@@ -86,12 +86,6 @@ offer legal advice. You can configure OpenSSL so as not to use RC5 and IDEA by using ./config no-rc5 no-idea -Until the RSA patent expires, U.S. users may want to use - ./config no-rc5 no-idea no-rsa - -Please note that you will *not* be able to communicate with most of -the popular web browsers without RSA support. - * Is OpenSSL thread-safe? @@ -99,13 +99,12 @@ country. The file contains some of the patents that we know about or are rumoured to exist. This is not a definitive list. - RSA Data Security holds software patents on the RSA and RC5 algorithms. If - their ciphers are used used inside the USA (and Japan?), you must contact RSA - Data Security for licensing conditions. Their web page is - http://www.rsa.com/. + RSA Security holds software patents on the RC5 algorithm. If you + intend to use this cipher, you must contact RSA Security for + licensing conditions. Their web page is http://www.rsasecurity.com/. - RC4 is a trademark of RSA Data Security, so use of this label should perhaps - only be used with RSA Data Security's permission. + RC4 is a trademark of RSA Security, so use of this label should perhaps + only be used with RSA Security's permission. The IDEA algorithm is patented by Ascom in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA. They should @@ -119,9 +118,6 @@ a Win32 platform, read the INSTALL.W32 file. For OpenVMS systems, read INSTALL.VMS. - For people in the USA, it is possible to compile OpenSSL to use RSA Inc.'s - public key library, RSAREF, by configuring OpenSSL with the option "rsaref". - Read the documentation in the doc/ directory. It is quite rough, but it lists the functions, you will probably have to look at the code to work out how to used them. Look at the example programs. |