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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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