[115] in Cypherpunks
Re: validity of the RSA patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Sat May 1 03:41:29 1993
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sat, 1 May 93 0:29:09 PDT
From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9304300628.AA17668@soda.berkeley.edu>; from "Eric Hughes" at Apr 29, 93 11:28 pm
> Consider use of another public key encryption scheme, say LUC encryption.
Which, of course, is patent-pending. It appears that we can no more
make progress in cryptography in the face of algorithm patents than
we could advance mathematics under the burden of theorem licensing.
We can't afford to wait until 2001.
> Eric
Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
(LPF member)
