That really sucks ... so we can't code RSA at all, eh?
How could we possibly deal with that problem? Do we have to get permission
from whoever does RSA? How does Sun do it? Microsoft? Netscape? They
just pay immense amounts of money?
--John Keiser
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> M. Renn
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> Subject: Patents and Munitions
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>
> The Java security classes contain explicit references to RSA keys. My
> understanding is that all the RSA stuff is under patent in the
> US. Anybody
> know anything differently?
>
> Also, is anyone aware of anything in the standard Java security setup that
> is not exportable from the US? My understanding is that all of that stuff
> is supposed to be in Java Cryptography Extension, but I want to be
> absolutely sure. Any non-exportable code is pretty much useless for our
> purposes.
>
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