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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,sci.crypt
Subject: RSA Encryption on the Internet
Message-ID: <11348@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 21 Mar 89 17:51:06 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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The New York Times reported today that the Internet has decided to
adopt RSA as the basis for an authentication scheme.  This was done
after appropriate negotiations with RSA, Inc., concerning licensing.
Can someone post the details, both technical and administrative?
(It's odd to learn something significant about the Internet from the
mundane media...)

		--Steve Bellovin
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