Re: undefined MAY algorithm example

[Werner Koch <wk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@xxxxxxxxxx> 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