[53] in Cypherpunks
Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Fri Apr 30 06:22:48 1993
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 14:16:30 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Mark C. Henderson's message of Thu, 29 Apr 1993 11:11:20 PDT <m0nod4q-00017NC@van-bc.wimsey.com>
>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.
Eric
