alo@kampi.hut.fi (Antti Louko) (05/21/91)
Archive-name: mail/privacy-enhanced-mail/rpem/1991-05-20 Archive: kampi.hut.fi:/alo/*rpem* [130.233.224.2] Original-posting-by: alo@kampi.hut.fi (Antti Louko) Original-subject: Re: rpem: RSA patent questions Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991May20.013244.21526@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@epic..bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes: >If only US patent protection exists for public key cryptography, then >the obvious thing to do with rpem is to put it up for anonymous FTP on >a site in Canada, beyond the protection of the US patent. Of course, >individual US users who retrieve and use it in the US could still be >sued for patent infringement, but this would be a lot harder than >going after a public FTP site (as demonstrated by the nonsense over >R/X-rated GIF images). The export version of rpem is also available at kampi.hut.fi (130.233.224.2) under directory alo. >And since Canada is an exception to the State Department requirements >for licensing the export of cryptographic software, there should be >no problem on this score. I also made an interface package (des.c and des.h) which uses my DES with rpem. This package is in rpem_alodes.tar.Z. My DES is in des-dist.tar.Z. By the way, in my opinion, RSA has not been very cooperative in announcing their claims for RSA. 22 Dec 1989 I sent them (rsa@well.UUCP) mail stating that I would be willing to put their notice to my bignum package, especially for US users implementing RSA with it. Jim Bidzos answered Jan 8 1990 stating that the reply would be comping by regular mail. It never came. And please remember, to my knowledge none of these exponentiation ciphers has any patents outside US. Antti Louko -- comp.archives file verification kampi.hut.fi -rw-r--r-- 1 alo 55 721 May 16 23:20 /alo/rpem_alodes.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 alo 55 150998 May 16 23:19 /alo/rpem_export.tar.Z found rpem ok kampi.hut.fi:/alo/*rpem*