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- From: injc@helios.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Joerg Czeranski)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: [sci.crypt, et al.] Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.211800.12981@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:18:00 GMT
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- David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com) wrote:
- : My position is clear. RSA has patents on a wonderful invention and they are
- : entitled to the fruits of their work. To cheat them of those fruits is wrong,
- : regardless of the legal situation outside the US., or whether one will get
- : caught or not.
-
- I don't doubt, that RSA is a wonderful invention, but it is not solely the
- work of Rivest, Shamir & Adleman. They proposed the encryption scheme
- (and discussed it), but many articles were written about RSA by others,
- investigating how secure single bits are, etc. Isn't RSA only interesting
- because it's strength was broadly discussed in the open literature?
-
- How can PKP hold a patent, withholding the fuits of others' work from
- U.S. citizens regardless of any legal situation? Isn't such a patent
- very unethical?
-
- I will not consider it unethical using PGP, I am indeed going to try it -
- I have heard much good about it. The length of the whole dicussion
- suggests, that PGP is indeed worth wasting so much energy on deciding
- if it is ethical to use it (or might this be a typical usenet
- discussion? ;-).
-
- Well, have a merry christmas altogether,
- joerg
-
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