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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: RSA cryptographic algorithm patented?
Message-ID: <1975@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 18:09:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 18:09:12 1985
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In article <490@calmasd.UUCP> jpm@calmasd.UUCP (John McNally) writes:
>This seems ludicrous!  Is RSA Security on the net?  How about
>Rivest, Shamir, or Adelman?  Are they the principals in RSA
>Security?  If so, I would like to hear from them and have this
>thing clarified.  I smell Marketing!

I agree.  You can't patent an idea, just the implementation.  If you wrote
your own RSA program, you certainly wouldn't be breaking any laws, just as
if you wrote your own Unix kernel, you could sell it freely.


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