>On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:39:53PM -0000, Chris Zimman wrote:
>> Not only pay for BSAFE, but you actually have to *use* the RSA routines
>>in BSAFE
>> for any of their patented ciphers.  RSA was pretty explicit about this.
>
>Can that be done with OpenSSL? If I want to use things like stunnel/etc
>legally on US machines, can I fit BSAFE into OpenSSL in order to get the
>libraries to link against?

You can replace the RSA algorithm module with calls to BSAFE.  In fact, all
of the individual algorithms are modularizes so you can replace them with
your own routines, or add new ones.

cjh
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