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Re: using RSA-the-cryptosystem to secure RSA-the-company's patent?
In article Jef Poskanzer <[email protected]> writes:
>Subject: using RSA-the-cryptosystem to secure RSA-the-company's patent?
>Date: Sun, 10 Jul 94 20:07:58 PDT
>From: Jef Poskanzer <[email protected]>
>Apropos the recent thread on tamper-proof programs...
>Can anyone think of a way that RSA-the-company could include some sort
>of RSA-cryptosystem-secured check in a release of PGP so that it would
>only interoperate with other versions that have the same check? I don't
>see how it could be done, but it's sure an intriguing idea.
>---
Why in the world would we want to give them any kind of solution to something
like that - particularly on an 'open line' like this? :-)
Dave Merriman