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Re: RSA challenge: is it legal to try?

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Subject: Re: RSA challenge: is it legal to try?
From: [email protected] (Anonymous)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:35:05 +0100 (MET)
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Greg Broiles says, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 
> >According to http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/newfaq/q76.html, RSA is in the
> >process of patent application for RC5.  Does that mean it's illegal to
> >write a keysearch program for the RC5 challenges (unless you use BSAFE
> >or something like that)?

Patents only apply to commercial use. I don't think
participating in the contest can be considered commerical use.

Me, a lawyer? No way.

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