🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <MdrtruK00hYoQpYlJx@andrew.cmu.edu> dh10+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Christian Homan) writes:
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>> I would like to discuss the technical issues involved in using public-key
>> encryption as a method to copy-protect software.  I am also starting a
>> thread on comp.sys.next.misc to discuss whether using this type of 
>> copy-protection is a go .... [details deleted]
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>Just remember that the RSA algorithm is patented and can't be used.
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It may be patented, but is RSA the only public-key cryptosystem in existence?  
I know RSA is no secret because I'm looking at it right in my data structures 
class textbook, "Introduction to Algorithms" bu Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest--
chapter 33, page 831).  I've also have code for its implementation (written 
in BASIC no less) out of the 'Hackerbibel' by the Chaos Computer Club.

Given all of this, I still haven't implemented it in C for my unix mail; guess
I'm just too lazy. :-) 

				Arnim Sauerbier