validity of the RSA patent

[Eli Brandt]

> Consider use of another public key encryption scheme, say LUC encryption.

Which, of course, is patent-pending.  It appears that we can no more
make progress in cryptography in the face of algorithm patents than
we could advance mathematics under the burden of theorem licensing.
We can't afford to wait until 2001.

> Eric

   Eli   ebrandt at jarthur.claremont.edu
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