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From: jpm@calmasd.UUCP (John McNally)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Response from R of RSA Re: patent
Message-ID: <566@calmasd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 13:00:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 13:00:30 1985
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>Antony Williams reports:
>> In article <4776@mit-eddie.UUCP> rivest%mc@mit-eddie.UUCP (Ronald L. Rivest) writes:
>> >Yes, the RSA cryptosystem is patented, by MIT.  The U.S. patent number is
>> >4,405,829.  To my knowledge there are no foreign patents.  If you read the
>> 				       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 	. . .
>> >MIT has granted an exclusive sublicense on the patent to a new company
>> >called "RSA Security, Inc.".  This company was founded by the inventors
>> >of the RSA cryptosystem (myself, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman).  The objective
>> 
I never received Rivest's posting quoted above.  Since I
originally requested a response from one of the trio in a previous
article in this newsgroup, I would appreciate it if someone would
re-post the Rivest article or mail me a copy.  I wonder what
happened? 

"There appears to be a small black hole very close to our system
because it is causing odd perturbations.  It is called /dev/null."
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