Re: Signing data using an RSA keypair and RSA patent encumberance

2008-07-24 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Please read the Wikipedia page on it? Due to some of the circumstances surrounding the RSA algorithm's patenting, it became impossible for patents to be issued on the algorithm outside the US. This, along with the US government's encryption export policies, is why the PGPi (international PGP) proj

Re: Signing data using an RSA keypair and RSA patent encumberance

2008-07-24 Thread Patrick Patterson
Salman Ahmed wrote: > If I use the following functions from OpenSSL to sign data and later verify > the data/signature using an RSA keypair: > >EVP_SignInit(); >EVP_SignUpdate(); >EVP_SignFinal(); > >EVP_VerifyInit(); >EVP_VerifyUpdate(); >EVP_VerifyFinal(); > > in an ap

Signing data using an RSA keypair and RSA patent encumberance

2008-07-24 Thread Salman Ahmed
If I use the following functions from OpenSSL to sign data and later verify the data/signature using an RSA keypair: EVP_SignInit(); EVP_SignUpdate(); EVP_SignFinal(); EVP_VerifyInit(); EVP_VerifyUpdate(); EVP_VerifyFinal(); in an application that is distributed globally aroun