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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.legal
Subject: Re: RSA cryptographic algorithm patented?
Message-ID: <2678@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 00:24:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 00:24:27 1985
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Summary: 

I guess it depends upon what you call an ``algorithm''.  I understand
that UNIX's set-user-ID mechanism was one of the first (if not THE
first) software patents.  It has nothing to do with particular hardware
or servicing a particular application--I would assume that a computer
implemented with bistable algae built solely for performing a simulation
of water flow is still covered by this patent, should it require such
a file-security mechanism.

		-Ed Hall
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