@settitle The Nettle low-level cryptographic library.
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The @acronym{RSA} algorithm was the first practical digital signature
algorithm that was constructed. It was described 1978 in a paper by
Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and L.M. Adleman, and the technique was also
-patented in 1983. The patent expired on September 20, 2000, and since
-that day, @acronym{RSA} can be used freely.
+patented in the @acronym{USA} in 1983. The patent expired on September 20, 2000, and since
+that day, @acronym{RSA} can be used freely, even in the @acronym{USA}.
It's remarkably simple to describe the trapdoor function behind
@acronym{RSA}. The ``one-way''-function used is