Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am aware that RSA is expecting a rush of RSA pkc programmes >after Sept
20th.
Some, surely, to judge from the comments on this list over the
past several years -- but I'll be surprised if any particular marketplace
is radically transformed or created.
I do think that there will continue to be major growth in the
number of RSApkc-based applications next year and in subsequent years...
after the various patent-phobic standards orgs double back to rewrite their
various PKC standards, to reflect the choices being made by the installed
base of crypto users.
I assume that those rewritten standards will eventually require
the liberated RSApkc -- in addition to D-H/DSS; or perhaps sometimes in
place of D-H -- in products which seek to conform to those various standards
>It is my $0.02 worth that if there is such a rush, there will >be little
legal hope of upholding the expired patent, with so >many products entering
public domain.
This may be what my wife means when she says that just because we
speak the same language, that doesn't mean we can understand each other.
I'm confused.
After the US RSApkc patent has expired, there is nothing to be
"upheld." Period. The legal period of monopoly, within the US, granted by
the patent is at an end.
RSA will still own rights (copyright, TM) to the code its
programmers have written over the years; and RSA will still own various
types of IP on other ciphers that Ron Rivest has invented over the past 20
years (except for MD4, MD5, and RC2, which RSA voluntarily gave over to
public domain) -- but an expired RSApkc patent means that no RSApkc patent
exists.
Open season. All challengers are welcome.
In that marketplace, to judge by current demand, I think RSA will
fare pretty well... just as it does today in your country, Japan, and in
much of the rest of the global market. (All that eay code from
RSA-Australia, donchaknow;-)
(Actually, RSA has always had a big business selling public domain
ciphers -- DES and 3DES, at a hefty premium over many local alternative
vendors -- to financial institutions in the US, Japan, much of Asia.)
>It will be like trying to hold back a waterfall with a few >twigs.
I'm really curious. What *are* you are trying to say?
>And we'll all get rid of RSARef :)
Now that I understand;-)
Suerte,
_Vin
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