Re: New non-us and main, and RSA
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 23:21:28 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> However we also have libssl, openssl, cipe and ssleay in main which all
> implement the IDEA (and RSA?) algorithms.
Here's some additional information I received wrt openssl. I don't think it
makes much of a difference, unless openssl can be made to use a
non-encumbered public key algorithm, say DH, instead of RSA.
Ray
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Subject: Re: New non-us and main, and RSA
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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 22:43:15 +0200 (+0200)
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Hi,
I saw your message regarding the IDEA patent and openssl on Dejanews
(linux.debian.policy). I'd like to mention that with the upcoming
release OpenSSL 0.9.3 it is possible to disable selected ciphers at
configuration time, for example with
./config no-idea; make depend; rm -Rf crypto/idea
you can create a copy of OpenSSL that does not use IDEA. The same
applies to RC5 (it is also possible with RSA, but that makes the
library close to useless).
Feel free to forward this message if you think it is useful.
Ulf
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