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Article #2302Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:14
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:14
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>>>>> jbuck@messier.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) (JB) writes:
JB> Correct. Here's the list of PKP patents, from an archive maintained by
JB> the League for Programming Freedom:
JB> 4,405,829
JB> Cryptographic Communications System and Method
JB> filed 12/14/77
JB> granted 9/20/83
JB> inventors Ronald Rivest, Shamir, Adleman
JB> assignee Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JB> The RSA public key cryptosystem, and any communication system that evaluates
JB> a polynomial modulo a prime number.
^^^^^
JB> This is the "RSA" patent.
JB> Public Key partners has exclusive sublicensing rights.
Strange. I thought the modulus in RSA was not a prime number but the
product of two.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl Message-ID: <1992Dec23.101415.18239@cs.ruu.nl> In-Reply-To: jbuck@messier.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:14:15 GMT Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) References: <CKD.92Dec16145954@loiosh.eff.org> <scs.724599694@hela.iti.org> <1992Dec17.220115.2371@netcom.com> <1gr00nINNi18@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 24