> From: Rodney Thayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Many companies trade mark their company name. I've heard the
> term 'rsa' pre-dates the company, so I assume they didn't do
> that. I don't see it on the web site.
>
Trademarking the company name and trademarking the algorithm name is
diff
> -Original Message-
> From: William Allen Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: Re: electronic ballots
> [SNIP much]
> >
> > It seems that something like a smartcard would be the best scheme.
>
> Not likely. Voting is very different from banking transactions. And
> issuing s
> From: Arnold G. Reinhold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> At 3:27 PM -0400 6/6/2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >
> >Following up on my own post... My brain clearly wasn't in
> gear when I
> >did my previous search. It's U.S. patent 5,732,138; see
> >http://patents.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?EN
FYI: Discussion on patent-news about Intellectual property and how AES
free-use is probably not guarantee-able.
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Subject: PATNEWS: NIST threatens antitrust against potential crypto patent
> From: Will Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Can anybody provide insight into the question of exactly when the RSA
> patent expires beyond just September 20?
>
35 USC 154(2) says the term shall begin on the date on which the patent
issues and ending 20 years from the date on which the appli
