openSSH/openSSL question.

[Damien Miller]

On 29 Dec 2000, sunil vallamkonda wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Looking at:
> http://www.openssh.com/features.html
> 
> Under 'Free Licensing' section:
> 
> "any licensed or patented components are chosen from
> external libraries (e.g. OpenSSL)"
> 
> Can someone please enlighten me which
> components specifically have patent/
> licensing restrictions from openSSL that
> are being used by openSSH ?

This is not legal advice.

OpenSSH uses the following cryptographic primitives: 

DES (1DES and 3DES), Blowfish, CAST128, Rijndael, RC4, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, MD5, SHA1, HMAC.

I may have missed some.

> Are any of these restricted by US export laws ?

Speak to a lawyer.

-d

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