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In article <25@nl.cs.cmu.edu> mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Mauldin) writes:
> 
> Several months ago I posted a request asking just what about RSA the
> MIT patent covers.  I got no answers.  

> Not wanting to spend the time or money to ask the patent office for a
> copy of the patent, I hoped I could find out on the net.  Does anyone
> know specifically what the Patent was granted for/what they claimed?
> 
> Michael L. Mauldin (Fuzzy)

Well, I am having cracker-jack Government patent lawyers take a look
at the RSA Patent.  The patent grants some rights to the U.S.
Government, so my answer may not be for everyone.  I have a copy
of the patent, but I can't really read it (you need a recursive
descent parser to wade through some of the clauses :-)).  They seem
to be patenting the "implementation" of an algorithm for a specific
purpose (cryptography).  The example posted earlier on the use
of exp() for feedback loops is probably very similar.
I'll let ya'll know what I find out.

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