The RSA algorithm is now (as of Sept. 6) in the public domain:

See http://www.rsasecurity.com/developers/total-solution/faq.html

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Nemeth wrote:

> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 23:42:39 -0700
> From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
> To: current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: 1.5 status???
> 
>      What is the status of the 1.5 release?  Originally, it was
> supposed to be out sometime around Sept. 20th to coincide with the
> expiration of the RSA patent.  That is only 16 days away; however, 1.5
> has not even gone into beta testing yet.
> 

Ron