Re: lynx-dev Lynx and SSL-encrypting

[dickey]

> 
> On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 address@hidden wrote: 
> >> Has anyone given any thought to if it might become legal once the RSA  
> >> patent expires in the USA (Sep 2000)?  It seems to me (IANAL) that RSA  
> >> would enter the public domain then, and thus be freely redistributable.  
> > 
> >being a pessimist, I assume RSA will do something to entangle the patent 
> >so it'll remain unavailable. 
>  
> The patent isn't the problem, is it?  Isn't it export restrictions upon any 
> encryption above a certain level of complexity? 

yes - but they're also a tool for RSA, since that forces potential users
of the technology to jump through extra hoops.


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Thomas E. Dickey
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