[109659] in Cypherpunks
Re: P1363: RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to describe algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alfred John Menezes)
Wed Mar 31 21:46:20 1999
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:21:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Alfred John Menezes <ajmeneze@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca>
To: AdelJaber@aol.com
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, stds-p1363@mail.ieee.org, ipsec@tis.com
In-Reply-To: <ae1b51d3.370140ef@aol.com>
Reply-To: Alfred John Menezes <ajmeneze@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca>
A clarification to Adel's post: the excerpt below "Perhaps we
should..." should be credited to John Gilmore, and not to me.
- Alfred
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 AdelJaber@aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
