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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.misc
Subject: Re: public key encryption alg wanted...
Message-ID: <686@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 06:16:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.686
Posted: Fri Sep 11 06:16:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 07:44:22 EDT
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Summary: Copyright strikes again. Actually, it's a patent...


> [...public key encryption...prime numbers...]

Sounds like  you'r talking about RSA public key encryption. This technique
is patented by Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (? did I get these names right?).

Therefore there is not now nor will there ever be (until the 17 or so years
is up, anyway) a public domain implementation of this.

If anybody knows anything about any of the non-patented public key systems,
(knapsack?), please post a followup.
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-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter
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