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a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
> In <bontchev.718919860@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesse
> >Well, so I am asking those of you who are "in Europe": do you have any
> >information about the above? Could you tell me in which countries
> >exactly public-key cryptography is patented and which are the patent
> >numbers? Thanks in advance.
> 
> My understanding, from reading comp.patents, is that RSA is unpatentable in
> countries other than the USA, because it was published (in Scientific
> American, no less) before the patent was applied for.

This is what Philip Zimmermann has told me.  Certainly if this was not the
case, and if the RSA patents were valid in the EC, it would have made no
sense to shift the development of PGP 2 to Europe.


mathew
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