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From: cpa@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Christopher P Avram)
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Subject: Re: RSA public-key source?
Message-ID: <1991May1.024631.27135@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 1 May 91 02:46:31 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.193911.13853@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan) writes:
>In article <1401@nih-csl.nih.gov>, frost@helix.nih.gov (James P. Goltz) says:
>>Does anyone know of source code for an implementation of the RSA
>>public-key encryption algorithm?  
>
>RSA is patented, so it's not clear whether it's legal to distribute
>RSA source code without RSA's permission, even if you wrote the code.
>I wrote an RSA implementation, but feel uncomfortable in distributing it.
>
>RSA does have an agreement with Digital to distribute RSA
>code as part of a sort of alpha-test of a product called SPX.
>
>For details, FTP to crl.dec.com  (192.58.206.2).
>Look for SPX-FORMS (form to fill out to request RSA source).
>
>Mark R.  Michigan State Univ.  riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu

It has been published many times. Since its patented, perhaps I shouldn't
say were ;-) (but if you were to accidently pick up a Byte of 1984 you may
find something related).