PictureTel Licenses Cylink Security Technology For Encrypted Videoconfe (fwd)

Message-ID: <BcylinkURQwQ_6lJ@clari.net> Clarinet reports: SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 1996--Cylink Corp. (NASDAQ: CYLK) today announced that it has licensed its patented security technology, the Diffie-Hellman, Hellman-Merkle patents covering public key cryptography, to PictureTel Corp. (NASDAQ:PCTL) to be used in its System 4000 group videoconferencing systems. The Cylink license allows access to all implementations of Public Key cryptography, including Diffie-Hellman key exchanges and Digital Signature Standard (DSS), ..... ============== Hmm..... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

At 8:26 AM -0700 7/19/96, David Lesher wrote:
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Clarinet reports:
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 1996--Cylink Corp. (NASDAQ: CYLK) today announced that it has licensed its patented security technology, the Diffie-Hellman, Hellman-Merkle patents covering public key cryptography, to PictureTel Corp. (NASDAQ:PCTL) to be used in its System 4000 group videoconferencing systems.
The Cylink license allows access to all implementations of Public Key cryptography, including Diffie-Hellman key exchanges and Digital Signature Standard (DSS), .....
That's what Cylink claims. RSADSI disagrees vigorously. Stay tuned for the court results. David
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