> The relevant patent is the one on the RSA cryptography algorithm.
> It expires in September 2000. It is in the US only. Outside the US,
> the algorithm is not patented.
Just make sure you understand what you can and cannot do in a few
months when the RSA patent expires.
What you can do is write the RSA algorithm yourself without paying
royalties.
What you still cannot do is use the BSAFE or RSAREF libraries without
permission; that is code written by RSA Labs and is protected by
copyright.
This may or may not mean that you can use the code in SSLeay or Openssl
that implements the RSA algorithm. The copyright for that code
belongs to Eric Young.
On the assumption the you have Eric Young's permission to use his
code, then I believe that expiration of the RSA patent means that
you will be able to use his code within the United States.
OK, so I'm not one of those lawyer critters, but I do think I know
what I'm talking about.
-- Eric
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