> We've implemented a small version of SSL that we plan to release as > open source by year's end.
Great! > We're not looking for official legal advice, just some pointers to > current online resources of how to go about registering our product in > the US. http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption; Google for "crypto export" turned it up as the third item. Yes, open source is pretty easy to export. (Even for binaries, it's not like the bad old days; the regulations are pretty realistic now. For example, there's really no such thing as "export strength" any more.) > On a different, but similar legal note, > what current patent/trademark issues have people run across with the > algorithms mentioned above? Well, for the ones you mentioned, RSA and 3DES are unencumberd. RC4 is a trademark owned by RSA Data Security. So don't violate their trademark. /r$ -- Rich Salz Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]