PGP compatibility

Karsten Patzwaldt kpa@gmx.net
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:12:38 +0000


--ALfTUftag+2gvp1h
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:03:10PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:

> > > I remember having read that the US patent on RSA will expire next
> > > year. Does anyone have hard facts about that?
> >=20
> > 2000-09-20
>=20
> As far as GnuPG goes, does this mean that it there will be a full
> implementation of RSA in a year time?
What do you mean by 'full implementation'? There are the modules, rsa.c, idea.c, 3des.c, ..., that you can use. And these will be free after this date, I assume. You can get these from the GnuPG homepage. Regards, Karsten --ALfTUftag+2gvp1h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE37AVlx8lkzSW5GKsRAbdeAJ9QHIj+47asiuTFMWNt+xKeI3VYswCePK7E CH83gf6jfS13LZVylYYHakA= =6dNv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ALfTUftag+2gvp1h--