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- From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
- Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.133613.16830@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:36:13 GMT
- References: <bontchev.724943800@fbihh> <1992Dec21.203115.12176@netcom.com> <bontchev.725032635@fbihh> <1992Dec22.215815.3172@netcom.com> <bontchev.725110231@fbihh>
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- In article <bontchev.725110231@fbihh>, bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- > I somehow do not share the hope expressed here by some people that the
- > new US administration will lift the restrictions on cryto software...
-
- They might -- Gore is a fan of networking -- but they have other priorities.
- If they do, it will take a few years, I'd guess.
-
- > Besides, could somebody check whether PKP's patents are renewable? If
- > they are, we might have to wait a long time... :-)
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- Patents aren't renewable. The RSA patent, which is at issue here, expires
- in 2000.
-