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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2000-09-07 14:59:04 +0400
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2000-09-07 14:59:04 +0400
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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.
@@ -174,4 +170,4 @@
# [your changes]
# ./Configure dist; make clean
# cd ..
- # diff -urN openssl-orig openssl-work > mydiffs.patch
+ # diff -ur openssl-orig openssl-work > mydiffs.patch