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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Public key patents in Europe?
- Message-ID: <XeBLsB6w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:55:20 BST
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- a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
- > In <bontchev.718919860@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesse
- > >Well, so I am asking those of you who are "in Europe": do you have any
- > >information about the above? Could you tell me in which countries
- > >exactly public-key cryptography is patented and which are the patent
- > >numbers? Thanks in advance.
- >
- > My understanding, from reading comp.patents, is that RSA is unpatentable in
- > countries other than the USA, because it was published (in Scientific
- > American, no less) before the patent was applied for.
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- This is what Philip Zimmermann has told me. Certainly if this was not the
- case, and if the RSA patents were valid in the EC, it would have made no
- sense to shift the development of PGP 2 to Europe.
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- mathew
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