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- From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.101415.18239@cs.ruu.nl>
- In-Reply-To: jbuck@messier.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:14:15 GMT
- Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- References: <CKD.92Dec16145954@loiosh.eff.org> <scs.724599694@hela.iti.org> <1992Dec17.220115.2371@netcom.com> <1gr00nINNi18@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- >>>>> jbuck@messier.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) (JB) writes:
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- JB> Correct. Here's the list of PKP patents, from an archive maintained by
- JB> the League for Programming Freedom:
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- JB> 4,405,829
- JB> Cryptographic Communications System and Method
- JB> filed 12/14/77
- JB> granted 9/20/83
- JB> inventors Ronald Rivest, Shamir, Adleman
- JB> assignee Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- JB> The RSA public key cryptosystem, and any communication system that evaluates
- JB> a polynomial modulo a prime number.
- ^^^^^
- JB> This is the "RSA" patent.
- JB> Public Key partners has exclusive sublicensing rights.
-
- Strange. I thought the modulus in RSA was not a prime number but the
- product of two.
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