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Date:      Wed, 09 May 2001 03:27:32 +0200
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Query on SSL / SSLeay
Message-ID:  <3AF89D04.11DA450F@eboa.com>
References:  <002801c0d67b$c22e2760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
>  ...
>   Originally, before OpenSSL, if you wanted SSL on Webmin
> you installed  SSLeay-0.9.0b.tar.gz and the Perl interface
> to it, Net_SSLeay.pm-1.03.tar.gz.  The problem here was that
> SSLeay needed the copyrighted RSA libes, and it was defined as
> a munition (rather silly) preventing export and some more
> silly nonsense.

The way I remember it is that in that time on the SSLeay mailing list
was announced that SSLeay was to be superceded by OpenSSL. Which was
in fact an outgrowth of SSLeay.

Legalities did play some role. But wasn't SSLeay non-US, Aussie I recall,
therefore not bound by any RSA patents?

That was quite some time ago, though.

Roelof

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