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Re: Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Markus Friedl)
Tue Sep 24 14:52:54 2002
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:51:11 +0200
From: Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>
To: Ulf Moeller - Mailing Lists <ulf.m@wel.de>
Cc: bear <bear@sonic.net>, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <00c001c263f8$620db560$fe76fea9@sigma>
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:29:52PM +0200, Ulf Moeller - Mailing Lists wrote:
> By the way, OpenSSL has always included patented algorithms such as RSA and
> IDEA, together with warnings about patent issues in the documentation and
> compile time switches to disable algorithms that are known to be patented.
yes, but the idea and rc5 support can be disabled by removing the
directories, whereas the license in question is spread all
over the source tree.
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