retawq Documentation
Patent Issues
On this page, I try to collect some information about patents and especially
expired patents, mostly regarding TLS. This information might be wrong;
any corrections and additions are highly appreciated!
The RSA patent expired in 2000.
The Diffie-Hellman (DH) patent expired in 1997.
This documentation file is part of version 0.2.6b of retawq, a network client created by
Arne Thomaßen. retawq is basically released under
certain versions of the GNU General Public License and WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Arne Thomaßen.