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    This is preliminary support for an "RSA null" cipher. Unfortunately when · 4a61a64f
    Dr. Stephen Henson authored
    OpenSSL is compiled with NO_RSA, no RSA operations can be used: including
    key generation storage and display of RSA keys. Since these operations are
    not covered by the RSA patent (my understanding is it only covers encrypt,
    decrypt, sign and verify) they can be included: this is an often requested
    feature, attempts to use the patented operations return an error code.
    
    This is enabled by setting RSA_NULL. This means that if a particular application
    has its own legal US RSA implementation then it can use that instead by setting
    it as the default RSA method.
    
    Still experimental and needs some fiddling of the other libraries so they have
    some options that don't attempt to use RSA if it isn't allowed.
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