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- From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Bias in ACM and IEEE articles on cryptography
- Message-ID: <3154.Aug1604.38.2292@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 04:38:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.221748.11063@mdd.comm.mot.com> <9208151459.AA06736@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- Organization: IR
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- In article <9208151459.AA06736@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
- > Rivest et al. make no secret of their affiliations,
-
- False. John, please retract your statement.
-
- Nowhere in the July 1992 CACM issue is there any hint of Rivest's
- association with RSADSI.
-
- In CACM Rivest states ``DSS is different from the de facto public key
- standard (RSA).'' Of course RSA is not the de facto standard; see the
- letter by Stallman, Minsky, et al. in prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/lpf/bidzos.r*.
- And Rivest does not point out his financial interest in claiming that
- RSA is a de facto standard.
-
- Rivest states ``Public Key Partners (PKP) asserts that DSS infringes
- U.S. patents #4,200,770 and #4,218,582.'' Needless to say, PKP and
- RSADSI are for all intents and purposes the same company---but Rivest
- doesn't point this out. Rivest also does not point out his financial
- interest in the two patents he cites.
-
- ---Dan
-