Re: rpem: current status

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 05:06

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In article <1991May21.123514.18549@cs.utk.edu> Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov> writes:
>In article <1991May20.205102.11174@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>>
>>Use of a public key (or other) cryptosystem by the public is not threatened
>>by the holders of the RSA patent(s).
>
>How's that again?

Why, no, that's not threatened, unless you intend to do any operations on
a finite field when doing this encryption, or if you intend to use data
transmitted by a public key system as the key to a private key system (an
obvious use, IMO, but who has the lawyers to prove it?)... I hear they are
exhuming Fermat and Wilson to sue them for patent infringement.
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
     .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.

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