BSafe toolkits for implementing RSA public key algorithm

[Gordon Fritsch]

That is what I am hearing, but our legal department seems to think
otherwise. Apparently, even though the patent expired, there are licensing
issues with using the RSA algorithms. This is for a possible commercial
application.

-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Miller [mailto:djm at mindrot.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 4:57 PM
To: Gordon Fritsch
Cc: 'ssh at clienet.fi'; 'openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org'
Subject: Re: BSafe toolkits for implementing RSA public key algorithm


On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Gordon Fritsch wrote:

> Has anyone had any experience with any of the BSafe toolkits that are
> available and contain support for the RSA public key algorithms? I would
> like to use one of RSA's toolkits in a port of a Windows OpenSSH client
that
> I am working on, in order to avoid any licensing issues from RSA. Can
anyone
> recommend a good toolkit? I understand that there a number of them, such
as
> BSafe SSL-C, SLPlus, SSLRef, etc.
 
There are no licensing issues for RSA - the patent expired last year.

-d

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