17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org> writes:
You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't use Netscape Navigator or PGP?
Actually RSA is not a hard target for people like us to threaten. The Diffie-Hellman patent expires in 210 days. Cylink is prevented from taking legal action against anyone for violating this patent while the current lawsuit is being decided. When Diffie-Hellman expires ElGamal is available for use for free. So the best threat one can make against RSA is to directly challenge their revenue stream: start working on making ElGamal an available option in all systems which use RSA. jim