Hi,
First of all thank you all for answering my question!
On 27-Apr-99 Salz, Rich wrote:
>> The RSA person
>> I was talking to says that they can not sell the license for RSA usage
>> with an OpenSSL and that we have to buy their BSAFE product. Does it mean
> that
>> BSAFE was bought (and used???) for all existing commercial products that
> use
>> OpenSSL instead of just buying a license for RSA usage? It sounds pretty
>> unbelievable to me... Are there any examples to support or disprove this?
>
>
> Why is it unbelievable? Unless you are a very big company, the only way you
> can get an RSA license is to get a license to use their implementation of
> the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, I am already convinced that the only way to use SSL in the commercial
product in US is to get BSAFE.
> patent. Once you get BSAFE, you can modify it as you wish; even to the point
> of
> replacing their implementation with another one (such as OpenSSL).
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Is that what is normally done? It is easiest since my OpenSSL version is
working. But is that legal? How about asking RSA Data Security directly if they
care or not? (This is probably a stupid thing to do... I can imagine that the
answer would be - "of course we care".)
I have seen one comment on using BSAFE in the mailing list archives and it was
not optimistic at all. There was also a discussion on OpenSSL support for BSAFE
but it appeared that this was not implemented. It looks like BSAFE covers all
the same areas as OpenSSL does and there is no need to connect them - one can
use BSAFE for everything.
Is there anyone who can also share an experience of working with BSAFE? How it
is compared to OpenSSL? I do not mind using BSAFE if it is reasonable.
Anyway we have to pay...
Thanks a lot,
Olga Anropova.
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