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From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: key exchange for rlogin/telnet services?
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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> Diffie-Hellman requires public key for the initial exchange, and is
> in fact a technique for secure exchange of keys.
> 
> I thought it was also patented by PKP/RSA?

It is indeed till '97. Many people believe the patents to be invalid
but noone has ever went to court and prove it ...

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
   FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #9: Sat Feb 18 19:21:00 MET 1995