Get the Rijndael function declarations.

[openssl.git] / README

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- OpenSSL 0.9.6-dev  xx XXX 2000
+ OpenSSL 0.9.7-dev 24 Sep 2000
 
  Copyright (c) 1998-2000 The OpenSSL Project
  Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@
  The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
  commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
  Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1)
- protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The project is managed
- by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate,
- plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation. 
+ protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
+ The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the
+ Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its
+ related documentation. 
 
  OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed from Eric A. Young
  and Tim J. Hudson.  The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under a dual-license (the
@@ -98,13 +99,12 @@
  country.  The file contains some of the patents that we know about or are
  rumoured to exist. This is not a definitive list.
 
- RSA Data Security holds software patents on the RSA and RC5 algorithms.  If
- their ciphers are used used inside the USA (and Japan?), you must contact RSA
- Data Security for licensing conditions. Their web page is
- http://www.rsa.com/.
+ RSA Security holds software patents on the RC5 algorithm.  If you
+ intend to use this cipher, you must contact RSA Security for
+ licensing conditions. Their web page is http://www.rsasecurity.com/.
 
- RC4 is a trademark of RSA Data Security, so use of this label should perhaps
- only be used with RSA Data Security's permission. 
+ RC4 is a trademark of RSA Security, so use of this label should perhaps
+ only be used with RSA Security's permission. 
 
  The IDEA algorithm is patented by Ascom in Austria, France, Germany, Italy,
  Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA.  They should
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  a Win32 platform, read the INSTALL.W32 file.  For OpenVMS systems, read
  INSTALL.VMS.
 
- For people in the USA, it is possible to compile OpenSSL to use RSA Inc.'s
- public key library, RSAREF, by configuring OpenSSL with the option "rsaref".
-
  Read the documentation in the doc/ directory.  It is quite rough, but it
  lists the functions, you will probably have to look at the code to work out
  how to used them. Look at the example programs.
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  the string "[PATCH]" in the subject. Please be sure to include a
  textual explanation of what your patch does.
 
+ Note: For legal reasons, contributions from the US can be accepted only
+ if a copy of the patch is sent to crypt@bxa.doc.gov
+
  The preferred format for changes is "diff -u" output. You might
  generate it like this:
 
@@ -173,4 +173,4 @@
  # [your changes]
  # ./Configure dist; make clean
  # cd ..
- # diff -urN openssl-orig openssl-work > mydiffs.patch
+ # diff -ur openssl-orig openssl-work > mydiffs.patch