William H. Geiger III wrote:
> 
> 
> I am rather confused as to why Red Hat would go with a closed, proprietary
> crypto library instead of going with OpenSSL, doesn't seem to be the Linux
> way.
> 

Probably because in the US if you want to use RSA then you don't have
any choice. Well at least until the patent expires...

Steve.
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