On Thu, 20 May 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > 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.
openssl does support DH, but the trouble is all the server keys are RSA keys so it is basically worthless. With any luck in a year and a bit when RSA is unpatented we can do alot of moving of software to non-US/main! IDEA is much much easier to replace than RSA is :> Jason
