[105510] in Cypherpunks
Re: Rivest Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cordian)
Fri Nov 13 14:55:20 1998
From: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:24:32 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199811130259.VAA11936@dewdrop2.mindspring.com> from "John Young" at Nov 12, 98 09:49:21 pm
Reply-To: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>
JYA writes:
> Ron Rivest received on November 10 "US Patent 5835600:
> Block encryption algorithm with data-dependent rotations:"
> http://jya.com/rivest111098.htm (22K)
So we can't use the rotate instruction with a data-dependent shift
count in a block encryption algorithm without a license from Ron?
Foo on that.
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