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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: How do AV Codes Work? (PKZIP)
- Message-ID: <8c.I03cOc30k00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:36:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec9.223633.24425@leland.Stanford.EDU> <bontchev.724072736@fbihh> <1992Dec12.042955.18961@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Dec12.042955.18961@leland.Stanford.EDU> kocherp@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Carl Kocher) writes:
- > I don't
- >really know what PKWARE *ought* to do for the next release, since political
- >considerations make RSA unusable. Possibly some public-key system that has
- >been broken could be used successfully, since very little plaintext (and
- >essentially no chosen plaintext) would be available to crackers?
-
- First check to see what the RSA patent covers. I don't remember exactly,
- but it may cover ALL public key schemes (which wouldn't be surprising given
- how patents are granted).
-
- >-- Paul Kocher
-
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
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