On 01/17/2009 12:40 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
To make a long story short, some of the technology behind public key encryption is based on a patent owned by MIT and leased to RSA. The technology was developed by Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman who were at MIT at the time although public key encryption was originally proposed at Stanford. There was a big battle waged between RSA and Phil Zimmerman, and during that time, MIT was able to open source some of the technology. I'm being very general, because that was the subject of last December's Boston Linux and Unix meeting which we hold at MIT each month.On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:04:47 -0500, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Eventually, even these were forced to be relaxed for open source software to the point where they have almost no real impact. If youI think again this was done to make a free speech argument challenging the regulations moot so that they could still harrass companies when needed. One other note is that the original version of PGP used the IDEA encryption algorithm. This algorithm is covered by a patent for a couple of years yet. So the supplied version of gpg in many distros is not going to be able to handle stuff ecnrypted with the original gpg and some old keys. This probably won't be a problem for you.
-- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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