This bounced first try, but I was not (yet) subscribed, so I'm resending. Appologies if this arrives twice.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: OpenSSL Patents? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:26:15 -0600 From: William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Looking at 0.9.8(a) for the official httpd 2.2.0 binary distribution, this includes these (major) new features; Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. The list of patented methods (therefore not built by the ASF for distribution) remains the same listing RC5, MDC2 and IDEA in the README. But I'm wondering if any of these new Crypto features are known to be protected by patent. Please clarify so I can update our building for win32 document and package the correct binaries for US+International distribution. Bill . ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
