"James M. Rogers" wrote:
>
> Probably not,
>
> This would probably still violate some sort of patent that RSA has covering
> public key encrytion. Probably best to avoid for now til the RSA patent
> expires and some other companies successfully win a court case against RSA.
> Also it would make it difficult to export out of the US, you know how the
> government feels about those foreigners having any sort of strong
> encryption... Not that they aren't smart enough to figure out strong
> encryption on their own... ;)
>
The generic public key encryption patent has already expired. That's
why gpg uses DSS/Diffie-Hellman, it's completely patent free. The
actual RSA patent (which is valid only inside the US) expires next year.
-hpa
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