Re: Can US companies use OpenSSL?

1999-09-16 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:44:49AM +0200, Xaver Fischer wrote: > Is there really a patent on rc4? I thought only rc5 and rc6 are protected by > patents (rc6 is not in openssl)? There is no indiciation that RC4 is covered by a patent -- RSADSI never claimed it were. >> If I build OpenSSL as: >>

Re: OpenSSL on Mac (Was: Can US companies use OpenSSL?)

1999-09-16 Thread Steve Lihn
Anybody can help me with manipulating ASN1_OBJECT? 1) How do I create a new object identifier, say 1.10.20.30.40 ? 2) How do I set it into ASN1_OBJECT variable? 3) If i2d is performed and ASN1_OBJECT is read from a certificate, what is the internal structure? I want to be able to verify I am read

RE: Can US companies use OpenSSL?

1999-09-15 Thread Xaver Fischer
gt; Subject: Re: Can US companies use OpenSSL? > > > If I build OpenSSL as: > > ./config no-rsa no-rc4 > > Then that removes all patented algorithims from OpenSSL doesn't it? > > Then building things like stunnel with this should produce a > "binary"

Re: OpenSSL on Mac (Was: Can US companies use OpenSSL?)

1999-09-15 Thread Roy Wood
>There are some issues with a US company exporting anything dealing with >crypto - you may have heard that our government frowns on such practices >;-) . Ah yes-- the US government. Same government that grants all those software patents, right? :-) >However, since a diff file doesn't contai

Re: Can US companies use OpenSSL?

1999-09-15 Thread Jason Haar
If I build OpenSSL as: ./config no-rsa no-rc4 Then that removes all patented algorithims from OpenSSL doesn't it? Then building things like stunnel with this should produce a "binary" or "product" that I can legally send to a collegue in the USA to use? -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Sp

Re: OpenSSL on Mac (Was: Can US companies use OpenSSL?)

1999-09-15 Thread CJ Holmes
>>CJ Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> We've done it here at StarNINE for our WebSTAR product >>> , mainly because the alternatives are vastly more >>> expensive and don't support the Mac platform. OpenSSL doesn't exactly >>> support the mac, either, but since we hav

Re: Can US companies use OpenSSL?

1999-09-14 Thread Karsten Spang
Chris Zimman wrote: > On 09/13/99, CJ Holmes said: > >Yes, you can use OpenSSL. However, you must still pay RSA for the use of > >their algorithm. Normally, RSA only licenses the RSA algorithm by > >licensing the BSAFE toolkit, so you end up paying for BSAFE so you can use > >OpenSSL. > Not only

Re: OpenSSL on Mac (Was: Can US companies use OpenSSL?)

1999-09-14 Thread Roy Wood
>CJ Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We've done it here at StarNINE for our WebSTAR product >> , mainly because the alternatives are vastly more >> expensive and don't support the Mac platform. OpenSSL doesn't exactly >> support the mac, either, but since we have the

RE: Can US companies use OpenSSL?

1999-09-14 Thread Salter, Thomas A
This has been done for earlier versions of SSLeay. See http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/ssleay/ssleay.html > -Original Message- > From: CJ Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: C

Re: Can US companies use OpenSSL?

1999-09-14 Thread CJ Holmes
>On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:39:53PM -, Chris Zimman wrote: >> Not only pay for BSAFE, but you actually have to *use* the RSA routines >>in BSAFE >> for any of their patented ciphers. RSA was pretty explicit about this. > >Can that be done with OpenSSL? If I want to use things like stunnel/etc

Re: Can US companies use OpenSSL?

1999-09-14 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Karsten Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ks> This rises another matter, how do I get BSAFE into the program? I ks> guess that BSAFE cannot be exported from the US. I guess it can (I've asked around, but haven't gotten any certain answer yet). ks> So, if the development takes place in Europe usin