[47964] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto Exports, Europe, and Conspiracy Theories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Thu Jan 25 03:07:49 1996
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 18:52:04 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
I believe that one minor reason is the PKP chokehold on public-key patents.
It has slowed down adoption within the US, and the RSA licenses for example
tend to get very "interesting" when it involves places where their patents
don't hold.
Last year, how many COTS products had strong crypto? There are very few
software imports into the US. I don't think crypto is particularly
slighted.
There might be pressure, and there might be dummy front firms, but with
tongue in cheek to emphasize the point, I just think those ferriners
can't code fer shit.
/r$
