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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSL
Message-ID:  <20030630142745.T49599@fubar.adept.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030629211239.G22284-100000@localhost>
References:  <20030629211239.G22284-100000@localhost>

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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Orville R. Weyrich_Jr wrote:
> I checked the Apache Web site and found an article from 1998 that said
> that RSA had a patent on encryption needed for SSL in the USA.
> Somewhere I recall hearing that the patent had expired. Is this true?

I believe it expired in 2000,

http://www.seifried.org/security/cryptography/crypto-book/appendix-e.html

(Google "RSA Patent Expire" -- multiple sources confirm the date.)

-mrh

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