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Article #2407Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
From: Arthur Rubin
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:17
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:17
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In <1992Dec15.215259.10895@samba.oit.unc.edu> Alex.Strasheim@launchpad.unc.edu (Alex Strasheim) writes: >I'm beginning to become a little frustrated with this discussion. Patent >law is a highly technical field, and unless you're a lawyer who works with >patent law on a regular basis, I think it would be foolish for anyone to >give much creedence to your -- or my -- opinion on the validity of the RSA >patent. Would you pay much attention to a lawyer's pronouncement that a >crypto system is secure? It's more foolish to trust PKP's lawyers pronoucement's that the patent they control is valid. (I don't think it's valid either, but I haven't acted on that, except that I do sometimes perform exponentiations modulo composites.) -- Arthur L. Rubin: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (work) Beckman Instruments/Brea 216-5888@mcimail.com 70707.453@compuserve.com arthur@pnet01.cts.com (personal) My opinions are my own, and do not represent those of my employer. My interaction with our news system is unstable; please mail anything important.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!beckman.com!dn66!a_rubin Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality Message-ID: <a_rubin.724526226@dn66> From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) Date: 16 Dec 92 17:17:06 GMT References: <1992Dec15.200406.14952@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Dec15.215259.10895@samba.oit.unc.edu> Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc. Nntp-Posting-Host: dn66.dse.beckman.com Lines: 18