[109681] in Cypherpunks
Re: P1363: Biprime Cryptography to replace RSA?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Apr 1 11:49:02 1999
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:29:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: phr@netcom.com, Bodo_Moeller@public.uni-hamburg.de,
stds-p1363@majordomo.ieee.org, cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com,
jya@pipeline.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
I don't see where it's really that big of a deal either way. Why not
just call it RSApub, RSAnew, RSAinternational, RSA_GPL, or
something along those lines? I really don't think it's that difficult to
come up with something that people can look at and immediately know
what it is, especially when you consider that most people looking into
using RSA will probably have a relatively decent idea of these issues
already.
Sorry to add to the confusion or whatever. I just wanted to point out
that I don't think it matters how this thing turns out. It took me 5
seconds to come up with the names above, and as such I don't think
it will take more than 5 minutes to make an informed decision on
something that people will recognize. Not exactly a Y2k problem.
At 03:46 PM 3/31/99 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
>This discussion has been fun but really unless it turns out
>that there's a real NEED to find an alternative name for the
>RSA algorithm, there's no point in continuing to clog so many
>mailboxes with these messages. It doesn't sound so far like
>the trademark thing is likely to get anywhere, so unless that
>somehow changes, let's not worry about finding a new name.
