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- From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal,sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: PGP use Ethical and Legal Questions
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:13:14 -0500
- Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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- rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
- > This same thing confronts *anyone* who contracts labor of just about any
- > sort. What about RSA/PKP? They've undoubtedly known of PGP 2.1, yet
- > have not taken any action (that I know of) to defend their patent...
- > this signifies approval by default in my eyes.
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- Patent law allows selective enforcement--PKP's failure to sue anyone over
- the use of PGP does not weaken their patent rights.
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- > The RSAREF license forbids any changes (other than
- > those needed to port it, in C only, to other architectures).
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- False.
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- > I'm sure that someone
- > could find a way to run their algorithm more efficiently, quicker, etc.
- > ... but that's not allowed.
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- Yes, it is--read the current RSAREF license. As an example, RIPEM includes
- several performance enhancements to the vanilla RSAREF.
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- Amanda Walker
- InterCon Systems Corporation
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