using RSA-the-cryptosystem to secure RSA-the-company's patent?
Jef Poskanzer
jef at ee.lbl.gov
Sun Jul 10 21:44:20 PDT 1994
>The point of this is, why would *you* care? I can understand why RSA
>_might_ care, but I don't see Phil Zimmermann agreeing to it, and I
>don't see how anyone could force it into PGP at this point.
They got the stupid version number thing in; if they had thought of
a better trap, they could probably have gotten that in instead.
The point is, the secret key would not be in the source code. I can't
think of a way to use that; you can't; RSA couldn't; but I'm not
convinced it's impossible.
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Jef
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