According to Geoff Hutchison:
> This is only slightly on-topic. Today RSA released the algorithm into the
> public domain.
>
> http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html
>
> What does this mean? It means we can incorporate HTTPS code more directly
> without patent issues! So if someone would like to package the patches to
> htdig-3.1.4 into a Transport class, we'll be set for HTTPS natively in
> 3.2.x.
>
> (Then if we had FTP, we'd have native protocols for almost anyone.)
Are you certain that US export restrictions are no longer a problem?
My understanding was that restrictions were relaxed, but not entirely
removed. Are they relaxed enough to allow publishing RSA decryption
code in a package that can be downloaded anywhere in the world?
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