[109600] in Cypherpunks
Re: P1363: RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to describe algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Mar 30 17:20:17 1999
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, ipsec@tis.com, stds-p1363@mail.ieee.org
X-Charge-To: pgut001
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:38:52 (NZST)
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
"Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@csl.sri.com> writes:
>I suppose QRZ (RSA-1) is NOT appropriate.
It's somewhat misleading for radio amateurs, who will automatically
translate QRZ into something other than a crypto algorithm.
Alternatives are rot13( RSA ) or (my personal favourite) BHL
(which assumes you know about Apple's Sagan/BHA project).
Peter.
