[1474] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Netscape SSL Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Sep 12 16:56:57 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:54:44 -0700 (PDT)
To: David Jablon <dpj@world.std.com>,
3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf
=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= ),
cryptography@c2.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Many businesses have branches all over the place. They
naturally like to network all their branches, and so must
use an encrypted network if they are sharing lines with
the rest of the world, which is usually the case if one
branch is in Korea and one branch in the USA.
Such networks are probably the biggest users of encryption
today.
It would be quite alarming if a monopoly was created for
this capability. Such a patent could be used as a lever
to force GAK, or merely to strangle encryption the way the Chaum
has inadvertently strangled ecash.
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