After about 2 weeks worth of research (talking to this list, RSA,
our lawyers, etc) I found that if your a company in the US, and you
want SSL to talk to IE or Netscape, you have to either:
- Break the law
or
- Buy a license from RSA (very expensive)
or
- Buy a commercial SSL implimentation
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Terrell Larson wrote:
Aaron,
My opinion on this is as follows (I'm not a lawyer but I've hired
a few for opinions). If you end up breaching the licence then RSA
will have the right to revoke it from your company without
compensation and secondly - they will have the
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Dave Neuer wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Aaron D. Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stunnel Maillist [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: What US companies need to know about RSA
After
After a lot of research and talking with people from the Stunnel and
OpenSSL lists, and 3 phone calls to RSA itself, I've learned far more
than I ever wanted to know about RSA's patent and licensing. [Contrary
to the last person who posted on this list, I found both Stunnel and
OpenSSL lists
