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- From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: RSA sucks (Re: PGP warning (ooo; I am scared))
- Message-ID: <725567752.19838@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 18:35:52 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- >
- > For only 17 years, RSA gets to control the technology. Then it
- >becomes public domain, and joins all the freely available technology
- >everyone can look up and use. RSA isn't sitting on the technology;
- >they licence it, they give out a free toolkit, they give seminars,
- >they carry on the export control fight, and they try to get people to
- >use it. Admittedly, they have no talent for marketing mass-market software.
- >
- > John Nagle
-
- How many more years are still on the clock for the RSA patent? It should be
- ready to expire in the next few years.
-
- - Ron Sharp.
-