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Re: Subject: Re: Legal issues in implementing OpenPGP

1998-05-05 00:18:27
Jim Gillogly <jim(_at_)acm(_dot_)org> writes:

RIPEM-D [??]

 * RIPEMD-160 is not patented, see (as of 25.10.97)
 *   http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html

 TIGER is also not patented.

RSA is patented in the USA, but not elsewhere.  The patent runs out on

 Sep 20th, 2000

Diffie-Hellman (X9.42) [??]

The Diffie Hellman key agreement has run out on Apr 29th, 1997.

IDEA is patented [with expiration ??/??/??, and permission must be

2010 (but I'm not sure)

CAST5 is patented [patent applied for?] but Nortel and/or Entrust have
said
  it may be used for commercial and non-commercial applications.

See RFC2144.



Werner