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See RSA Security's press release at
http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html (September 6, 2000): "RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain"
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FAQ
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You can configure OpenSSL so as not to use RC5 and IDEA by using
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./config no-rc5 no-idea
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Until the RSA patent expires, U.S. users may want to use
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./config no-rc5 no-idea no-rsa
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Please note that you will *not* be able to communicate with most of
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the popular web browsers without RSA support.
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* Is OpenSSL thread-safe?
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README
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country. The file contains some of the patents that we know about or are
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rumoured to exist. This is not a definitive list.
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RSA Data Security holds software patents on the RSA and RC5 algorithms. If
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their ciphers are used used inside the USA (and Japan?), you must contact RSA
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Data Security for licensing conditions. Their web page is
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http://www.rsa.com/.
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RSA Security holds software patents on the RC5 algorithm. If you
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intend to use this cipher, you must contact RSA Security for
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licensing conditions. Their web page is http://www.rsasecurity.com/.
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RC4 is a trademark of RSA Data Security, so use of this label should perhaps
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only be used with RSA Data Security's permission.
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RC4 is a trademark of RSA Security, so use of this label should perhaps
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only be used with RSA Security's permission.
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The IDEA algorithm is patented by Ascom in Austria, France, Germany, Italy,
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Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA. They should
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a Win32 platform, read the INSTALL.W32 file. For OpenVMS systems, read
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INSTALL.VMS.
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For people in the USA, it is possible to compile OpenSSL to use RSA Inc.'s
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public key library, RSAREF, by configuring OpenSSL with the option "rsaref".
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Read the documentation in the doc/ directory. It is quite rough, but it
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lists the functions, you will probably have to look at the code to work out
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how to used them. Look at the example programs.
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