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Subject: Re: public key encryption and RSA patent status
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 20:26:02 EDT
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In article <622@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> andy@rocky.UUCP (Andy Freeman) writes:

>So, what are the relevant properties (to encryption) of the function RSA
>chose?  

The idea is that everybody can know the encryption algorithm,
but find it very hard (unlikely in a reasonable time) to decode.

>What are other functions with these properties?

This is the big search...  Find one, and you can have a patent too.

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