On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Scott Klement wrote:
> I thought the export limitations were already gone, and the RSA patent
> expired at the end of August?
Not for another 42 days :)
>From http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/6-3-1.html:
RSA is patented under U.S. Patent 4,405,829...the patent expires
17 years after issue...on September 20, 2000.
> At least, FreeBSD's development team is no longer forcing people to be
> USA residents to get the DES crypto distributions, as of the start of
> this month.
They're including DES in the base distribution because the export
restrictions have been relaxed by the U.S. government. Different crypto
issue.
Cheers,
Mick
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