🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991May20.145058.10669@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan) writes:
> --  Wait to see if the rumored availability within the next few weeks
> of "free" RSA software to the Internet, pans out.

The code is real; I have seen a copy of it.  I've been told that the
production version really will be distributed, and quite soon.  My
information is from the authors themselves.  You're welcome to call
this a rumor if you wish -- and certainly, the software had been
promised long ago; another delay would not be a surprise.

As far as I know -- and I know much less about this than I do about
the patent process -- the agreement with Public Key Partners about
the use of RSA for PEM does not require that one use any particular
software.  It would seem, then, that use of your software on the
Internet would be permissible *if* users paid their license fees
to obtain the certificates.  I would not be suprised if the agreement
extended only to RFC-compliant implementations, but that isn't a
major stumbling block, as far as I can see.