RIPEM vs PEM

Hal writes:

A remailer that wanted to charge, such as the ones that Eric Messick is discussing, would probably have to license the technology from PKP directly to be legal.

A note on licensing: PKP is the holder of the patents. The Partners are RSA Data Security, Cylink, MIT, and Stanford. PKP has a staff of two. RSADSI is also entitled to license the technology. Most people go through them. IBM dealt with PKP directly, evidently. Eric