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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:01:31PM -0300, Branden wrote:
> > We'll just have to use something other than RSA most likely.
> Why? Problems with exporting cryptosystems? If that's it, how does
> Java/Netscape do it?
Nah, it's a pattent issue. Netscape (and other .jar consumers, assumedly)
licenced code from RSA. However, it shouldn't be a problem, since RSA's
pattent (in the US, anyway, and I don't think they pattented anywhere else)
has timed out.
-=- James Mastros
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