Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:02:24 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure RPC revisited Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961114180103.369E-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5ld8xhb4y3.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
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On 14 Nov 1996, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Diffie-Hellman is only patented in the US and Canada. And those > patents will expire the 27th of April 1997. > > (It's unfortunately not the case that you cannot have such silly > patents outside of the US, just that the most common encryption > algorithms are not patented there.) THe algorithms are export controlled. PKP is probably not allowed to export the algorithm for the purposes of obtaining a patent! Danny
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