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Aside from the appropriateness of the RSA algorithm itself for patenting,
how about the manner in which it was distributed?  In a paper distributed
by MIT and in Communications of the ACM, the authors described RSA without
any mention of a patent or pending patent.

Now, I know zero about patent law, but shouldn't this place the algorithm
in the public domain?  Suppose, eg, that I hadn't read in BYTE or in this
newsgroup that it's patented, and built some large system based on RSA.
How can they claim I should have known it's theirs?

Anyone who knows more about patent law (ie, nearly everyone) care to comment?

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