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- From: catfood@wariat.org (Mark W. Schumann)
- Subject: Rewriting PGP w/RSA toolkit?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.011416.21070@wariat.org>
- Summary: Sounds perfectly legal, practical enough--why not do it?
- Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa
- References: <1992Dec22.172755.6937@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <4336@novavax.UUCP> <1992Dec27.180042.7620@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:14:16 GMT
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- nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
- > 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.
-
- This is what I don't get. What is the problem with just using RSA's
- toolkit if you want public-key encryption? Why don't the developers of
- PGP rewrite using this toolkit and go "legit"? I suppose I understand
- the anarchic aspect of it, but if it is really true that RSA will let
- you use their algorithm legally I don't see where the excitement is.
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