RIPEM vs PEM

Eric Hughes hughes at soda.berkeley.edu
Thu Jan 21 08:48:34 PST 1993


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






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