On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Oden Eriksson wrote: > It's not unique to Mandrake, Redhat has also a crippled openssl package, I > think they also remove(d?) RSA from it. But since the RSA patent expired I > don't know the current status of the Redhat openssl package.
Red Hat re-added RSA when the US patent restriction was gone. bash-2.05$ openssl genrsa Generating RSA private key, 512 bit long modulus ....++++++++++++ ...................................++++++++++++ e is 65537 (0x10001) -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIBOwIBAAJBANWuDs1NK5w1HoHRxyGKZNr1s26JW29H2nKG12bDTpW3nFdx7PZj kJmV15X6VDttywvRxVH1zs4pOAVmtlX37lUCAwEAAQJBAKitC/Y4ktJuhDSKep0Z eF/4ULpTJ6CCogiCNQtj5Wb85tgGLmn+dXEvOQBDyRlRV0Rk3C7ZjmKTgs28skZI r8kCIQDt7aNc2S1otHb/moRiud0XweJ+zaP9nvVPpOaie1J2SwIhAOXo7Qr4zAaL bDS1LgbRfUy9XDTaQS82iWtBdOJdhsnfAiEAr4ZMqkadtUzNLSv01lB/xvMGAL38 aTJHjwX8D4oi/5kCICPv2L2STjHnsS4788nVDQTlxHfudanvmGNPg/muLNd5AiAq jvhyH29ytutWLAyY7U+biCoGmiAIX5BBCvck4pU7mA== -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- bash-2.05$ openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.6b [engine] 9 Jul 2001
