This is preliminary support for an "RSA null" cipher. Unfortunately when
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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