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Re: using RSA-the-cryptosystem to secure RSA-the-company's patent?

To: Derek Atkins <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: using RSA-the-cryptosystem to secure RSA-the-company's patent?
From: Jef Poskanzer <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 94 21:44:08 PDT
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 11 Jul 94 00:36:04 EDT.
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>The point of this is, why would *you* care?  I can understand why RSA
>_might_ care, but I don't see Phil Zimmermann agreeing to it, and I
>don't see how anyone could force it into PGP at this point.

They got the stupid version number thing in; if they had thought of
a better trap, they could probably have gotten that in instead.

The point is, the secret key would not be in the source code.  I can't
think of a way to use that; you can't; RSA couldn't; but I'm not
convinced it's impossible.
---
Jef

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