RE: SSL certificate signing.

[mouss <usebsd@free.fr>]

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Paul D. Robertson wrote
> In the United States, RSA [the algorithm] is patent encumbered until this
> fall, so you'll need to pay RSA [the company] to use SSL that contains
> RSA [the algorithm] or certificate generation that does the same.

does this mean that code such as openssl may not be used in the US?


> I don't know if SSLeay will build on Win32, but if it does, removing the
> patent encumbered code and doing the usual Apache mods on the Win32
> version should work.

SSleay, now openSSl, should run on NT, but I'm not sure whether it is as
stable as
on unix. check www.openssl.org.


mouss

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