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- From: ken@halcyon.com (Ken Pizzini)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: (was: Re: Public key patents in Europe?)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.225218.16323@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 22:52:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nwnexus.1992Oct12.225218.16323
- References: <bontchev.718919860@fbihh>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
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- In article <bontchev.718919860@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes:
- >From the RSA FAQ, page 4, answer to question 1.5:
- >
- >"The authors of patent 4,218,582 claim that it applies to all uses of
- >public-key cryptography. It has been patented throughout the world."
-
- Okay, this is the second time I've heard this, and it doesn't make
- sense to me. I thought Diffie and Hellman invented (and published)
- public-key cryptography before RSA was invented? Do I have a
- misunderstanding (feel free to correct me), or is it just PKC that
- is based on the difficulty of factoring that is covered by the PKP
- patent? (Or did I misidentify the patent number above?)
-
- --Ken Pizzini
-