[41338] in Cypherpunks
Re: RSA Data Security, Inc. To Exclusively License Rights to RSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Thu Oct 12 21:07:11 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eli Brandt <eli@UX3.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9509128135.AA813510342@snail.rsa.com> from "baldwin" at Oct 12, 95 08:06:13 am
> RSA Data Security, Inc.
> today announced that it is now licensing patents for the Digital Signature
> Standard (DSS), the U.S. government standard for digital signatures.
I believe someone was suing the U.S. government on the grounds that the
public signature standard wasn't supposed to require proprietary
technology. Has this gone anywhere yet?
--
Eli Brandt
eli+@cs.cmu.edu
