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From: riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan)
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Subject: Re: RSA public-key source?
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Date: 26 Apr 91 19:39:11 GMT
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In article <1401@nih-csl.nih.gov>, frost@helix.nih.gov (James P. Goltz) says:
>Does anyone know of source code for an implementation of the RSA
>public-key encryption algorithm?  

RSA is patented, so it's not clear whether it's legal to distribute
RSA source code without RSA's permission, even if you wrote the code.
I wrote an RSA implementation, but feel uncomfortable in distributing it.

RSA does have an agreement with Digital to distribute RSA
code as part of a sort of alpha-test of a product called SPX.

For details, FTP to crl.dec.com  (192.58.206.2).
Look for SPX-FORMS (form to fill out to request RSA source).

Mark R.  Michigan State Univ.  riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu