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- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 16 Dec 92 17:17:06 GMT
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- In <1992Dec15.215259.10895@samba.oit.unc.edu> Alex.Strasheim@launchpad.unc.edu (Alex Strasheim) writes:
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- >I'm beginning to become a little frustrated with this discussion. Patent
- >law is a highly technical field, and unless you're a lawyer who works with
- >patent law on a regular basis, I think it would be foolish for anyone to
- >give much creedence to your -- or my -- opinion on the validity of the RSA
- >patent. Would you pay much attention to a lawyer's pronouncement that a
- >crypto system is secure?
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- It's more foolish to trust PKP's lawyers pronoucement's that the patent
- they control is valid. (I don't think it's valid either, but I haven't
- acted on that, except that I do sometimes perform exponentiations modulo
- composites.)
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