From 26b0d15628a63c452d53711df3e4f2891b288ae4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bodo=20M=C3=B6ller?= Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:55:11 +0000 Subject: 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" --- README | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 7e3e93b64f..c5a98a4537 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3