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Posted to c-user@axis.apache.org by Uthaiyashankar <sh...@wso2.com> on 2009/07/18 04:53:51 UTC

Re: have to remove patented algorithms (IDEA, MDC2 and RC5) in OpenSSL, will this affect SSL and ws-security?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Gordon Brown<go...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> A quick question. Due to company policy, I have to remove the patented
> algorithms from OpenSSL and build the library from the source code. The
> algorithms I need to remove are the following:  IDEA, MDC2 and RC5. I am
> wondering if this removal will affect the support of SSL in axis2/c and
> ws-security in rampart/c.

These algorithms are not used by Axis2/C or Rampart/C. AFAIK, removing
these algorithms will not affect Axis2/C and Rampart/C.

Regards,
Shankar


>
> Please advise. Thanks in advance!
>
> Gordon
>



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