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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.misc
Subject: Re: public key encryption and RSA patent status
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 09:08:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 09:08:01 1987
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In article <1509@epimass.EPI.COM>, jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
> 
> That was my point.  The patent is no good unless the courts will
> enforce it, and I suspect that the RSA patent will fall as soon as an
> organization with sufficient legal resources decides to challenge it.
> But don't try this at home if you don't want to spend time in court.

	Unless, of course, IBM, AT&T, the NSA or someone with hordes of
lawyers decides to try to defend it. Hell, just anyone with enough money
who decides to make a deal with R&S&A. Or is it just that my perception
of reality is warped ??

-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic