openssh unix dev - Jan 2001 - BSafe toolkits for implementing RSA public key algorithm

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.

thanks,

Gordon

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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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
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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

-- 
| ``We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on | Damien Miller -
| a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the | <djm at
mindrot.org>
| works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, / 
| we know this is not true.'' - Robert Wilensky UCB /
http://www.mindrot.org

gordon,

if there really are any issues, there are alot of people who would be
very concerned about that.  if you find out any substance to this, please
inform the community at large.

best regards,

chris

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:02:02PM -0800, Gordon Fritsch
wrote:
> 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.
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