[47] in Cypherpunks
Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. Dean Tribble)
Fri Apr 30 05:43:51 1993
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 16:09:15 PDT
From: tribble@memex.com (E. Dean Tribble)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Eric Hughes's message of Thu, 29 Apr 93 14:16:30 -0700 <9304292116.AA18449@soda.berkeley.edu>
>Problems with RSAREF/RIPEM:
>1. Use of RSAREF/RIPEM in support of a commercial enterprise is
>prohibited without paying a licence fee. Note that they can get
>you on copyright violations rather than patent infringement
>if you break the RSAREF licence agreement.
For those of you looking around for a good cypherpunk-style project, a
rewrite of RSAREF with an identical interface (external and some of
the internal) would be a good idea. Such a body of code would prevent
RSADSI from using copyright as leverage against a non-US company or
person.
It would be even nicer if this was done by someone outside the US.
This avoids the export problem.
dean
