[108073] in Cypherpunks
Re: RSA Going Away Party Planning Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Wed Feb 3 12:08:14 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:46:34 -0800
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Arunas Norvaisa wrote:
> Why these are organized at US east and west coasts only? Don't you plan
> to try Zimbabwe or Mongolia instead?
Zimbabwe and Mongolia had their "RSA is free for all uses!" parties two
decades ago -- the RSA algorithm is patented in the USA because one may
file up until a year after publication. In most other places prior
publication means one loses the right to file.
Of course, if cypherpunks in Zimbabwe, Mongolia and Burkina Faso want to
join in celebrating the event (at which I intend a congratulatory toast
to RS&A for coming up with an algorithm which is still useful and important
enough to celebrate two decades later) -- welcome to the party.
--
Jim Gillogly
13 Solmath S.R. 1999, 16:37
12.19.5.16.8, 2 Lamat 1 Pax, Fourth Lord of Night
