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Brian Smith
nettle
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82489344
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82489344
authored
Sep 27, 2005
by
Niels Möller
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(RSA): Improved text about the RSA patent.
Use @documentencoding ISO-8859-1. Rev: src/nettle/nettle.texinfo:1.31
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@settitle The Nettle low-level cryptographic library.
@c
%**end of header
@documentencoding ISO-8859-1
@footnotestyle end
@syncodeindex fn cp
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@@ -1463,8 +1465,8 @@ key, and to no others''.
The @acronym
{
RSA
}
algorithm was the first practical digital signature
algorithm that was constructed. It was described 1978 in a paper by
Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and L.M. Adleman, and the technique was also
patented in 1983. The patent expired on September 20, 2000, and since
that day, @acronym
{
RSA
}
can be used freely.
patented in
the @acronym
{
USA
}
in
1983. The patent expired on September 20, 2000, and since
that day, @acronym
{
RSA
}
can be used freely
, even in the @acronym
{
USA
}
.
It's remarkably simple to describe the trapdoor function behind
@acronym
{
RSA
}
. The ``one-way''-function used is
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