[7582] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: names to say in late september
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Thu Jul 27 18:13:58 2000
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:00:16 -0400
To: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>, cryptography@c2.net
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At 7:05 AM -0700 7/27/2000, Rodney Thayer wrote:
>What shall we call
>that-public-key-algorithm-that-will-not-be-patent-protected in late
>September? we should not use a trademarked or copyrighted term, in my
>opinion.
>There was discussion of this a while ago, I think. I don't recall what
>was around.
>
>I suggest "Rivest Public Key", or 'RPKey'. It's not the prettiest
>buzzword I've ever
>suggested, but is there something better to call it?
I like "Biprime Cryptography," or maybe "Biprime Public Key
Cryptography," where a biprime is defined as the product of two prime
numbers. I doesn't get close to any trademark and it is descriptive
of the algorithm.
Arnold Reinhold
