Hello,
Is the RSA patent really valid in Canada? I was under the impression
that the patent was valid exclusively in the US. At least I think that
was the conclusion of the discussions I've found on this mailing list.
Maybe Canada was implicitely understood as being part of the "US
territory" in those discussions...
Thanks in advance...
Vincent Levesque
(I apologize if this doesn't get included in the correct thread, I
replied to this message from the message archive...)
From: Paul Preziosi
Subject: Re: Library available outside the USA ?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:44:08 -0700
Michael wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As you know, some cryptography algorithms can't be used
outside the
> > USA. So, can anyone tell me if the OpenSSL library can be
used in a
> > commercial product outside the USA ? Or does the library
include
> > some dark-sided crypto algorithm only available for the USA
?
>
> Just us folks in the US can't export them in electronic form
although
> a published document which describes them in detail,
including a
> listing (on paper), is an acceptable export item as I
understand the
> law.
Right. For instance, the international versions of PGP are
exported,
quite legally, as books listing the whole source (along with
checksums
and digests) and scanned back to electronic form for
distribution
(see http://www.pgpi.com/).
There's another difference: RSA patents, because of
differences in
patent laws, is valid only in US and Canada. Therefore RSA can
be
freely used, for whatever purpose, outside US and Canada.
--
Paul
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