On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Rich Salz wrote:
> If you can't wait until then, you have three choices:
> Don't sell in the United States
> Sell, and hope RSA doesn't sue you
> Contact RSA and obtain a license.
Or use the RSA algorithm with 3 or more primes!
Actually, I just have to say this sometime. When I actually read
the patent a few months ago, I thought it was clear that it can only
be applied to the two prime case. Throughout, it always says
"product of two primes", "let p and q be two primes", etc; it never
says two or more. The math is the same with 3 or more primes.
Yeah, I know RSA would've sued you anyway. Would have been an
interesting case, huh? I wonder what Judge Judy would have decided. :)
Eric Norman
"Congress shall make no law restricting the size of integers
that may be multiplied together, or the number of times that
an integer may be multiplied by itself, or the modulus by
which an integer may be reduced".
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