On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
> :(
I believe they did, along with Merkle:
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US04200770__
but it has expired.
I think claim #8 there is the DH algorithm, but I haven't checked it
carefully that it is what PGP, gpg, OpenSSH, etc. are using.
Karl Runge
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