At 3:22 PM 9/27/95, Bill Stewart wrote:

2) RSA patent - can this be built with RSAREF? Or RSAREF with permission for a couple extra activities? Or built out of RIPEM or RIPEM-SIG? The latter has the benefit of already being exportable.

It certainly can be built from RSAREF, as I use my Apple DigiSign X.509 key (ultimately created with TIPEM in the Mac system software) with RIPEM/Mac (which uses RSAREF.) Some additional info: my company, Consensus Development, has commercial rights to license developers RSAREF also has a good relationship with VeriSign. We helping them writea variety of tools to make issuing X.509 certs easier.

5) S/MIME - real S/MIME compliance requires support for RC2 as well as publicly available algorithms, though this is really just an X.509 handler.

I've been working on getting RC2/RC4 in object-only exportable size key form from RSA for RSAREF customers, and Jim Bidzos has agreed in principle. We have to work out details, however.

6) It's a lot of work - well, yeah, it is. And I'm lazy. Is there enough related code in SSLeay to steal to help implement it?

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