Re: Worrisome messages

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:21:58 EDT
Jeffry Smith said:

>While V2 supports more protocals, RSA claims patent protection over
>all public-private key algorithms.  The good news is the patent
>expires in Sep.

Ironically, Diffie (who works for Sun) and Helman hit upon the concept of 
public-private key exchange long before RSA did.  They just didn't patent it 
:(
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Seeya,
Paul
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