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Re: encryption over the web
From: exon <exon () home se>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:13:35 +0200
Lucas Holt wrote:

On Jun 16, 2004, at 7:29 AM, Fan Zhang wrote:


Is https GNU ware or is it commercial software?
HTTPS is a protocol. It's non-proprietary and can't really be copyrighted or patented, so GNU has nothing to do with it, but it still doesn't cost anything to implement. 



fan
There is a library called OpenSSL that you can use to do HTTPS sessions with web servers or clients. I think SSL uses an RSA algorithm. 





/exon

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