From: Bill Neugent (9/24/95)
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:17:40 -0400
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From: wneugent@smiley.mitre.org (Bill Neugent)
Subject: Control of Crypto Patents
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Folks,
FYI, an interesting news note from Steve Bellovin.

Bill

>From: smb@research.att.com
>Mmdf-Warning:  Parse error in original version of preceding line at
>neptune.TIS.COM
>To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
>Cc: dns-security@TIS.COM
>Subject: Re: comments on secure DNS spec
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 21:59:40 EDT

>Note that the world has changed.  A few days ago, an arbitration panel
>*dissolved* PKP.  The so-called Stanford patents, most notably Diffie-
>Hellman, reverted to Cylink; the others reverted to RSA.  The press
>releases from RSA and Cylink are flat-out contradictory on what licenses
>one needs for which algorithms -- but there's no doubt that RSA is in
>a much weaker position than it was, since Bidzos no longer controls the
>Diffie-Hellman patent.
>
>Not, of course, that this necessarily makes our life any easier, just
>different...
>



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