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From: KFL@mit-ai.arpa (Keith F. Lynch)
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Subject: Re: RSA and public domain
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 21:46:01 EST
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    From: James Ellis <jte%mcnc.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>

    The RSA algorithm, at least, is not in the public domain.
    In fact, it is covered by U.S. Patent #4,405,829 issued Sept. 20, 1983.

  How can this be?  It is my understanding that one cannot patent
anything more than a year after it is first publically demonstrated or
published.  I read a description of the RSA algorithm in 1975, in
Scientific American.
								...Keith