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Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 19:12:34 -0400
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] crypto licensing
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2007/5/10, don bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com>:
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> Ok, so, after using google for the past hour and a half I've decided I
> suck at using google. So who here can point me to information on
> algorithm specific licenses? i.e. is the license required by rfc1312
> still necessary for an MD5 implementation? What about DES, AES, RSA, ...?
>
> I'm cryptographically challenge(/response)d. Huhuh.

Not sure what you mean. You can freely use MD5, SHA, DES, DES3,
Rijndael (AES), RSA, and even IDEA now (I believe the patent is gone)
without obtaining licenses from any entities.

--dho

> Don
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