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Subject: Re: public key encryption and RSA p
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 12:39:00 EDT
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> I believe that the patent covers the use of this equation for
> a specific purpose.  Patents protect applications of phenomena,
> not the phenomena.  The patent doesn't cover other uses of this
> equation.
> 
> -andy
> 
> ps - The "pencil and paper" rule is bogus.  Copiers are patentable.

	Oops!  Don't miss the point.  Copiers are indeed patentable, but
	copying is not.  Likewise, R, S and A can patent an encryption/
	decryption machine, but the real question is whether they can
	legitimately patent the specific purely algorithmic process.

Bill C.		billc@mirror.TMC.COM
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