[39507] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cylink
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Loewenstern)
Tue Sep 19 21:56:04 1995
From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 16:45:20 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
anonymous claims the WSJ said:
> The arbitrators ruled that RSA hasn't had the right to sublicense
> the Stanford patents since 1990.
>
> Cylink said it would seek royalties from companies that have licensed
> software code from RSA and are redistributing it, arguing that they
> are infringing the Stanford patents.
hahahaha, this is funny if it's true... Anyone know which two patents they
are referring to? (diffie-hellman and merkle-hellman?)
Any ideas on how this will change the legal status of RSAREF and PGP?
andrew
