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- From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: DES, PKP
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- Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
- References: <9212232324.AA16907@skidrow.ljo.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:58:03 GMT
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- dee@skidrow.pa.dec.com ("Beast (Donald E. Eastlake, 3rd)") writes:
-
- >. . . PKP has issued the following RFC . . .
-
- >Network Working Group R. Fougner
- >Request for Comments: 1170 Public Key Partners
- > January 1991
- > Public Key Standards and Licenses
-
- . . . [ document says it's an official statement from PKP ] . . .
-
- > . . . We assure the
- > interested parties that Public Key Partners will comply with all of
- > the policies of ANSI and the IEEE concerning the availability of
- > licenses to practice this art. Specifically, in support of any RSA
- > signature standard which may be adopted, Public Key Partners hereby
- > gives its assurance that licenses to practice RSA signatures will be
- > available under reasonable terms and conditions on a non-
- > discriminatory basis.
-
- Those two sentences sound contradictory to me. Don't IEEE and ANSI
- require all the technologies involved in a standard to be in the public
- domain? If so, the only possible interpretation of "reasonable terms
- and conditions" is "free".
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- "You can't get here from here."
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