Re: names to say in late september

[Arnold G. Reinhold]

At 7:05 AM -0700 7/27/2000, Rodney Thayer wrote:
>What shall we call
>that-public-key-algorithm-that-will-not-be-patent-protected in late
>September?  we should not use a trademarked or copyrighted term, in my
>opinion.
>There was discussion of this a while ago, I think.  I don't recall what
>was around.
>
>I suggest "Rivest Public Key", or 'RPKey'.  It's not the prettiest
>buzzword I've ever
>suggested, but is there something better to call it?

I like "Biprime Cryptography," or maybe "Biprime Public Key 
Cryptography," where a biprime is defined as the product of two prime 
numbers.  I doesn't get close to any trademark and it is descriptive 
of the algorithm.

Arnold Reinhold