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Article #2186Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:07
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:07
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Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu> writes: > That was part of why Mark Riordan quietly withdrew RPEM when it was > challenged even though he didn't believe it infringed PKP's patent. I > suppose you think him a wimp who does nothing but "talk talk talk" > because of that, but it may have been the right decision for the time. Mark is far from "a wimp who does nothing but talk talk talk." It's precisely because he has done more than talk that he has reason to be far more cautious than most of the people posting polemics to sci.crypt. And by using RSAREF for RIPEM, he now has the explicit blessing of RSA and PKP (cf. article <1992Dec13.025901.2625@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>). Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!udel!intercon!usenet From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:07:08 -0500 Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <9212150707.AA08219@chaos.intercon.com> References: <1992Dec14.204408.6485@news.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.intercon.com X-Newsreader: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1b23