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Re: names to say in late september
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Fri Jul 28 14:27:21 2000
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To: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:05:38 PDT.
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:14:44 -0500
> 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.
I think that "RSA" has gone the way of "Aspirin" and "Zipper".
If some lawyers try to make trouble about it, just put the initis
into alphabetical order!
