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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites
Message-ID: <1990Jul29.232029.27159@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 90 23:20:29 GMT

In article <6iZZm1w162w@cds1.UUCP> matt@cds1.UUCP (Mathew Di Nicola) writes:
>There's only one drawback -- encrypting, decrypting, and generating RSA
>keys takes a long time...

There is another:  RSA is patented in the US, and the patent owners are 
actively defending it against infringement.  (There is *no* "fair use"
exemption for patents, so it does not matter what you are using it for,
by the way.)
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