gnu@toad.com writes
"This public federal court action filed by Cylink to invalidate the MIT patent has been very damaging to both RSA and the PKP partnership as a whole.[...]"
Whoopee! In case there are some cypherpunks not familiar with the situation: The people who founded public key cryptography took out patents on various methods, patents that were entirely legitimate and justified. All of these various patents got together under a single partnership which then made the dubious claim to own *all* methods of public key cryptography, even methods such as the square root method which are substantially different from those developed by the patent holders. Those who make such a claim deserve to be afflicted with a plague of locusts and lawyers. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. jamesd@acm.org