Re: Do people have something against RSA?

[Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Xenitellis S wrote:
> 
> I am not an expert on this, however I have heard two reasons that
> may make RSA still difficult to use.
> 
> 1. The RSA patent expires this September, but there are several related
> to RSA patents that do not expire yet. It depends on the course that
> these additional patents will be fought for.
> 
> 2. In other countries (like in the UK), I think that RSA is patented. What
> is
> the case in those countries? When do patents expire?

RSA is not patented in the UK (or the rest of Europe).

Cheers,

Ben.

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