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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.legal
Subject: Re: RSA cryptographic algorithm patented?
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 16:06:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 16:06:45 1985
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In article <405@petrus.UUCP> karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>2. IBM is not widely known to cheerfully give away things for free.  In
>fact, this is so out of character for them that one almost wonders if they
>have an ulterior motive to promote widespread usage of DES (I think you can
>guess what it might be.)...

You bet.  The NSA really boondoggled IBM about DES and it's implementation.
Could it be that once upon a time it was so good that the NSA was forced to
cripple it?


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