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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue Dec 8 19:49:21 1992
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 19:48:59 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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calzone (Christopher L Kausel):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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cfields (Craig Fields):
Article: 9544 of sci.crypt
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Public Key for the Rest Of Us
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 19:43:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Roland Dreier (dreier@beirut.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Apparently, RSA believes their patent covers all forms of public-key
: cryptography. So the answer to your question appears to be no: if you
: come up with a cryptosystem that has the desirable properties of a
: public-key system, RSA will threaten you with a lawsuit. Also, I have
RSA holds the U.S. patent on using the difficulty of factoring large
numbers for crypto, just as Trimble Navigation now holds the U.S.
patent on using the Pythagorean Theorem for computing locations.
(Students are allowed to _experiment_ with the Pythagorean Theorem,
provided the theorem is neither used commercially nor exported.)
I have heard that a bootleg program, "Pretty Good Pythagoras" is
available from an anonymous ftp site in Greece (of all places!). No
word yet from Trimble on their lawsuit.
P.S. Seriously, I think the U.S. has set a bad precedent by allowing
mathematical discoveries to be patented. Diffie, Hellman, Merkle,
Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman deserve fame and riches, but not by having
the basic idea of trap door one-way functions patented! Ironically, I
bought a copy of RSA's "MailSafe." If RSA more aggressively marketed
it, and ported it other systems (like the Mac!), it might be more of a
market success. As it is, I expect to be using PGP 2.0 very soon now,
as all my friends are getting it (and only one has bought MailSafe,
besides me!).
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments.
Higher Power: 2^756839 | RSA MailSafe Public Key: by arrangement
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ebonyman (Matthew A. Phillips):
I don't think I have a plan
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kagraves (Kenneth A Graves):
Article 3891 of rec.humor.funny:
From: joshua@veritas.com (Joshua Levy)
Subject: Peacekeeping Quote
The Globe and Mail (a Canadian newspaper) published an interview with
Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, who commanded some U.N. peacekeepers
in what used to be Yugoslavia. He told the following story, set
at the Sarajevo airport while pinned down by sniper fire:
We were all lying down on the ground and a cameraman from a
Belgrade TV station crawled up to me and, as he put his camara
in my face, asked, `Who fired the first shot?'
I answered, `Some son of a bitch 400 years ago.'
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rajsuri (Rajiv Suri):
"Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things..."
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solo26 (Keith M Swartz):
First of all, I've moved. I'm now at:
32 Whites Ave, #48
Watertown MA 02172
923-9873 (Whatever A Female Wants, The People Deliver)
Other than that, the deal is the same: I'm a second-year grad student. I
was 6A with Digital, but they turned out to be racist reverse-
discriminating bastards, so I quit. I am NOT graduating this year. Why?
Because I don't have a thesis. No, not that I didn't finish it, I don't
HAVE one. Why? Because I'm not interested in anything. What will it be?
A masters and bachelors together. When do I leave? 93 if I'm lucky. 94
if I'm not. Never if this keeps up. Thank God for the drums.
Now stop asking me.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Onward, Christian Soldiers
The Reverend Earl Johnson, minister of Christ Lutheran Church in San
Lorenzo, California, had his crucifix confiscated when he was arrested
in an antiwar demonstration. "It might be used as a weapon," he was
told.
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