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- From: stevens@vms.macc.wisc.edu (PAul STevens - MACC - 2-9618)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.190615.13954@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 14 DEC 92 12:49:57
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- In article <1galtnINNhn5@transfer.stratus.com>, cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes...
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- >I went to the horse's mouth and asked some folks at PKP & RSA to comment
- >on PGP legality. Here's their reply. I have permission to post it.
- >
- >Being aware of the RSA patent makes infringement willful and
- >deliberate. Under patent law, a patent holder is entitled to seek
- >triple damages and legal fees from deliberate infringers. While the
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- Once again. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Who is going to do
- something? For the record I am going to publish a number I
- want to keep secret. I am going to raise it to the power of
- three modulo 91 which is the product of two primes. The
- result is 34. My wife knows the factors of 91 and will be able
- to decode this message. I believe that according to PKP I have
- willfully infringed their patent. I await a letter from the
- courts.
-
- My point is that *someone* has to test this patent claim! How
- can we force this to happen? If someone does get sued are we
- all willing to contribute to the defense or are we all talk, too?
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- PAul
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