From: Stanton McCandlish <anton@hydra.unm.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 21:31:10 MDT this is a real threat? Last I heard PGP *MIGHT* violate a patent, but PGP does violate patents. Several people, particularly in the cypherpunks community, are trying to alleviate the RSA vs. PGP problem. The controversy is counterproductive (and all sides seem to be mostly good guys), so let's not stir the pot further. Two of the solutions are 1) PGP could be reimplemented to use RSAREF, and 2) RSAREF (or something like it) could be extended to include all the functionality of PGP, but without the patent problems. (RSAREF is a copyleft implementation of RSA stuff). From: jim@RSA.COM (Jim Bidzos) I don't think you're aware of our position on pgp. Unfortunately, you may leave us no choice but to take legal action, which we will unless you cease promotion adn distribution of pgp. The next message will state our position. I encourage you to cease public promotion (because the RSA claim is legit), and send a message to Jim asking him what you can do to encourage a freely (and easily) useable and legal general encryption tool. dean