From 82489344180234cb582f4ba87ea76eebaea98706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= <nisse@lysator.liu.se> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:31:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] (RSA): Improved text about the RSA patent. Use @documentencoding ISO-8859-1. Rev: src/nettle/nettle.texinfo:1.31 --- nettle.texinfo | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/nettle.texinfo b/nettle.texinfo index f243ac4e..c911f244 100644 --- a/nettle.texinfo +++ b/nettle.texinfo @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ @settitle The Nettle low-level cryptographic library. @c %**end of header +@documentencoding ISO-8859-1 + @footnotestyle end @syncodeindex fn cp @@ -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 -- GitLab