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- From: robert.heuman@rose.com (robert heuman)
- Subject: PKP/RSA comments on P
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:26:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.072651.476@rose.com>
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- Date Entered: 12-18-92 02:15
- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes (lines adjusted for screen)
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- S(> Now a word to my colleagues all over the world. Though you may be
- S(> able to (or think you may be able to) use PGP with impunity, why
- S(> not voluntarily send RSA a reasonable contribution for their invention
- S(> --think of it as a shareinvention fee analogous to a shareware fee.
- S(> Say $20. A large number of such gestures might change the context of
- S(> the situation overnight. Note that this is my personal suggestion, and
- S(> I have not discussed it with anyone.
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- I do not believe that an previously published algorythm can be patented,
- nor that use of prime number factoring is anything other than use of
- mathematics, which I feel to be in the public domain.
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- I for one would NEVER, under any circustances, permit a US company to
- blackmail me into paying for the 'right' to use public key, if I am
- outside the US, and I also do not believe that a 'shareware' type fee
- should be given as a reward to a company that has been doing such a
- disservice to the world-wide community. The US and its citizens have to
- accept that we now live in an interconnected international society, and
- that rules that are unacceptable outside the US can only hurt the US and
- its interests world-wide if this type of suggestion, which amounts to
- extortion (itself illegal, David, and even extraditable in some cases) is
- supported by anyone sending money to RSA. [BTW, Canada too has some silly
- rules, not to put too fine a point on it. I am NOT a US basher.]
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- Bob Heuman <robert.heuman@rose.com>
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