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Re: I can't be the first person to have noticed this, but...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Tue Dec 19 11:32:33 2000
Message-Id: <200012181513.JAA29082@gungnir.fnal.gov>
To: Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:55:53 EST.
<200012151955.eBFJtrg07591@fbi.crypto.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:13:57 -0600
> The (now expired) RSA patent number, 4,405,829, is prime.
It would be interesting to suppose they finagled for that, but the
odds are a fairly decent 1-in-15 or so of it happening by chance.