Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 01/17/2009 12:40 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
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 you
I 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.
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.
AFAIK the patent expired last year...
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