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Re: Fighting Clipper III
Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> writes:
>You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't
>use Netscape Navigator or PGP?
Actually RSA is not a hard target for people like us to threaten. The
Diffie-Hellman patent expires in 210 days. Cylink is prevented from taking
legal action against anyone for violating this patent while the current
lawsuit is being decided. When Diffie-Hellman expires ElGamal is available
for use for free. So the best threat one can make against RSA is to directly
challenge their revenue stream: start working on making ElGamal an available
option in all systems which use RSA.
jim