Geoff is correct about the patent thing. I did a week long research thing
on this for my company (trying to figure out how to roll out a bunch of
SSL Proxies). Basically if you are a corporate entity, RSA want's $100K+.
If you're a non-corporation, you can download the RSAref library and use
that royalty free.
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm 100% sure there is a free implementation. It's big, however, and
> > we probably not want to include it in htdig.
>
> AFAIK, the free implementations of SSL still conflict with the U.S. Patent
> by RSA. Last time I checked, you couldn't even include hooks to an SSL
> library w/o conflicting with the patent. (This is why HTTPS is not
> included as a method in the W3C's free libwww package.)
>
> I think we want an external transport mechanism anyway--no one's going to
> want to write modules for things like WAIS or WAIS++, but there are
> programs written to retrieve URIs for these methods.
>
> -Geoff
>
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