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Article #753Re: Bias in ACM and IEEE articles on cryptography
From: D. J. Bernstein
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 04:38
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 04:38
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In article <9208151459.AA06736@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: > Rivest et al. make no secret of their affiliations, False. John, please retract your statement. Nowhere in the July 1992 CACM issue is there any hint of Rivest's association with RSADSI. In CACM Rivest states ``DSS is different from the de facto public key standard (RSA).'' Of course RSA is not the de facto standard; see the letter by Stallman, Minsky, et al. in prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/lpf/bidzos.r*. And Rivest does not point out his financial interest in claiming that RSA is a de facto standard. Rivest states ``Public Key Partners (PKP) asserts that DSS infringes U.S. patents #4,200,770 and #4,218,582.'' Needless to say, PKP and RSADSI are for all intents and purposes the same company---but Rivest doesn't point this out. Rivest also does not point out his financial interest in the two patents he cites. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!virtualnews.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Bias in ACM and IEEE articles on cryptography Message-ID: <3154.Aug1604.38.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu> Date: 16 Aug 92 04:38:22 GMT References: <1992Aug14.221748.11063@mdd.comm.mot.com> <9208151459.AA06736@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> Organization: IR Lines: 21