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Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality

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From: PAul STevens - MACC - 2-9618
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:49
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In article <1galtnINNhn5@transfer.stratus.com>, cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes...

>I went to the horse's mouth and asked some folks at PKP & RSA to comment
>on PGP legality.  Here's their reply.  I have permission to post it.
> 
>Being aware of the RSA patent makes infringement willful and
>deliberate. Under patent law, a patent holder is entitled to seek
>triple damages and legal fees from deliberate infringers.  While the

    Once again.  Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.  Who is going to do
    something?  For the record I am going to publish a number I
    want to keep secret.  I am going to raise it to the power of
    three modulo 91 which is the product of two primes.  The
    result is 34.  My wife knows the factors of 91 and will be able
    to decode this message.  I believe that according to PKP I have
    willfully infringed their patent.  I await a letter from the
    courts.

    My point is that *someone* has to test this patent claim!  How 
    can we force this to happen?  If someone does get sued are we
    all willing to contribute to the defense or are we all talk, too? 

           PAul
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