The patents for the RSA algorithms expire in September of 2000.
Dave Neuer
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From: Ross Foard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: RSA licensing for OpenSSL usage?
>Does anyone know the nature of the patents? When will they expire?
>
>
>"Salz, Rich" wrote:
>
>> > The RSA person
>> > I was talking to says that they can not sell the license for RSA usage
>> > with an OpenSSL and that we have to buy their BSAFE product. Does it
mean
>> that
>> > BSAFE was bought (and used???) for all existing commercial products
that
>> use
>> > OpenSSL instead of just buying a license for RSA usage? It sounds
pretty
>> > unbelievable to me... Are there any examples to support or disprove
this?
>>
>> Why is it unbelievable? Unless you are a very big company, the only way
you
>> can get an RSA license is to get a license to use their implementation of
>> the
>> patent. Once you get BSAFE, you can modify it as you wish; even to the
point
>> of
>> replacing their implementation with another one (such as OpenSSL).
>>
>> Tell RSA that you want to license BSAFE for incorporation into a product
and
>> then
>> negotiate the licensing fee. You can tell them it's for use in a Web
server
>> if
>> you want to.
>> /r$
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