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Attorneys: RSA patent invalid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Jul 16 17:06:23 1997
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:45:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com, cryptography@c2.net
In a just published article in CyberLaw, patent attorneys Patrick Flinn
and James Jordan rise serious questions about the validity of the RSA
patent in the US. The authors conclude:
> Due largely to luck, bluster, and the naiveti of potential competitors,
the owner of United States Patent No. 4,405,829 has enjoyed a virtual
monopoly on all uses of the RSA Algorithm. However, a careful scrutiny of
the RSA Patent claims, and other details of its disclosure and
prosecution, reveal both significant limits to the scope of the patent
and material questions regarding its validity.
The full article can be found at http://www.cyberlaw.com/rsa.html
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
