[130] in Cypherpunks
Re: validity of the RSA patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark C. Henderson)
Sat May 1 17:22:32 1993
From: markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 11:54:36 PDT
In-Reply-To: Message of Sat 1 May 1993, 0:29 from ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
To: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, cypherpunks@toad.com
> > 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.
On the other hand, perhaps the patent holder of LUC would be willing
to licence LUC for use in a PGP-like tool (or PGP 3.0) on the same basis
IDEA is now licenced to PGP users. (i.e. non-commerical use is OK. Even
certain commercial use is OK.)
This might solve a lot of our problems.
Has anybody asked? I can't be the first person to have considered
asking.
Mark
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Mark Henderson
markh@wimsey.bc.ca
RIPEM key available by key server/finger/E-mail
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