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Re: P1363: RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Mar 31 10:16:41 1999

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:05:26 -0800
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann), cypherpunks@toad.com,
        ipsec@tis.com, stds-p1363@mail.ieee.org
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <92282993208323@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>

At 09:38 AM 3/31/99, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>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).

It fits in well with the proposal for calling it 
Adleman Rivest Shamir Encryption....
At least until the RSA lawyers back off.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF  3C85 B884 0ABE 4639


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