"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(_at_)invweb(_dot_)net> writes:
No, no it's not. RSADSI charges $20,000 to use their algorithms in any
program other than freeware along with some other rather unacceptable
RSA is only patented in the U.S. So there are good reasons to keep
it for us Europeans and others.
The IETF is moving away from the use of encumbered algorithms and I see no
:-)
I don't like RSA due to the patent but I have a lot of precious key
signatures and it may take a while until they are all replaced by DSA
or another algo.
Werner