[109598] in Cypherpunks
Re: P1363: RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to describe algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (AdelJaber@aol.com)
Tue Mar 30 17:05:17 1999
From: AdelJaber@aol.com
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:23:59 EST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, stds-p1363@mail.ieee.org, ipsec@tis.com
Reply-To: AdelJaber@aol.com
In a message dated 3/30/99 1:07:34 PM Pacific Standard Time,
ajmeneze@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca writes:
> Perhaps we should have a little contest for what to call the RSA
> algorithm, given RSA's objection to calling a shovel a spade. ASR
> perhaps? Though ASS is tempting, I wouldn't want to gratuitously
> eliminate Ron Rivest's initial. SAR as in what a SARry company? RAS,
> to send a RASberry to the lawyers?
RSA is known only as RSA.
RSA owned the patent and they have the right to own the copy right.
Most of you are paid from money that is earned from IP and Copy Righted
materials. Why should RSA be excluded from benefiting from what the great
Capitalist system in the USA entitles them to?
Adel Jaber
