Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-20 Thread Vin McLellan
At 8/18/00, you wrote: > > I don't think it makes a gentleman sound very intelligent or > > responsible to make such inflammatory statements, about such a incendiary > > subject, with absolutely no facts at hand. Jeeeze! > >Alright, enough already. I expressed a concern based off of inf

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-18 Thread Vin McLellan
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 radical

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-18 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> crispin> And we'll all get rid of RSARef :) If nothing else, that's a good reason to have a bit of champagne (or whatever you'd like) that day. -- Richard Levitte \ Spannvägen 38, II \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chairman@Stacken \ S-168 35 BROMMA \ T:

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
I am aware that RSA is expecting a rush of RSA pkc programmes after Sept 20th. 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. It will be like trying to hold back a waterfall with a f

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Vin McLellan
At 8/17/00, you wrote: > > What sideline patents? I have followed this issue and I do not know what > > patents you're referring to. > >The company I used to work for did research on this issue and talked to a >number of IP attorneys regarding this issue. They didn't seem to feel >that it was as

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Chris Zimman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chris> > Uhmmm? You're not thinking of the MultiPrime thingy, are you? chris> chris> Nope, those are Compaq's patents as far as I know. And a cooperation with RSA Security, let's not forget that... RSA Security will benifit from it one way or another. -

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Chris Zimman
> Uhmmm? You're not thinking of the MultiPrime thingy, are you? Nope, those are Compaq's patents as far as I know. --Chris __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Chris Zimman
> What sideline patents? I have followed this issue and I do not know what > patents you're referring to. The company I used to work for did research on this issue and talked to a number of IP attorneys regarding this issue. They didn't seem to feel that it was as cut and dry of an issue. They

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Michael Sierchio
Chris Zimman wrote: > > This is a question for the lawyers. That said, there is a sentiment that > there exist sideline patents that may protect RSA beyond the expiration of > this patent. The *only* algorithm this applies to is the RSA public key > algorithm. None of the other algorithms (RC4

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Greg Stark
What sideline patents? I have followed this issue and I do not know what patents you're referring to. After the RSA patent has expired, the RSA algorithm is available royalty-free, it is that simple. So yes, it does mean that you can purchase and use any product offering 'the' RSA algorithm avail

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Allan Borr
> This is a question for the lawyers. That said, there is a sentiment that > there exist sideline patents that may protect RSA beyond the expiration of > this patent. I believe this to be untrue. If any such patents existed, they would be widely discussed in both the legal and cryptographic com

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Chris Zimman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chris> This is a question for the lawyers. That said, there is a chris> sentiment that there exist sideline patents that may protect chris> RSA beyond the expiration of this patent. Uhmmm? You're not thinking of the MultiPrime thingy, are you? -- Richar

Re: Life after September 20th

2000-08-17 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: "Gotfried, Colette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ColetteG> I am trying to analyze to understand the meaning of the ColetteG> expiration of the RSA patent. ColetteG> Does it mean that companies can purchase any product ColetteG> offering RSA algorithms implementation available in the ColetteG> market