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Re: Attorneys: RSA patent invalid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Wed Jul 23 10:55:55 1997
From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
To: tzeruch@ceddec.com
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 21:25:29 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <97Jul22.203421edt.32257@brickwall.ceddec.com> from "tzeruch@ceddec.com" at "Jul 22, 97 08:36:13 pm"
> Or has RSA suddenly started selling licenses so that anyone who wants to
> use Phil Zimmerman's or Eric Young's implemetation instead of RSAREF (or
> BSafe) can do so without much expense or hassle? Neither of these would
> cost $200K to code from scratch and are peer-reviewed by the net.
Uh, yes. C2Net has an RSA patent license and we're using
SSLeay in all our products. (I don't beleive that PRZ's RSA engine is
free software, btw.. PGP 2.6 may be free software, but that doesn't
mean you can gut it for your own purposes in another application.)
> Alternately if RSA is so good, does the license say that RSA will pay for
> all damages arising from any flaw in the code they are providing? Or does
Find me one software company that is willing to pay for all
damages arising out of use of their software.
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