Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Tue Sep 24 14:51:11 EDT 2002


On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:29:52PM +0200, Ulf Moeller - Mailing Lists wrote:
> By the way, OpenSSL has always included patented algorithms such as RSA and
> IDEA, together with warnings about patent issues in the documentation and
> compile time switches to disable algorithms that are known to be patented.

yes, but the idea and rc5 support can be disabled by removing the
directories, whereas the license in question is spread all
over the source tree.

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