RSA Data Security, Inc. To Exclusively License Rights to RSA

[Eli Brandt]

> RSA Data Security, Inc. 
> today announced that it is now licensing patents for the Digital Signature 
> Standard (DSS), the U.S. government standard for digital signatures.

I believe someone was suing the U.S. government on the grounds that the
public signature standard wasn't supposed to require proprietary 
technology.  Has this gone anywhere yet?

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   Eli Brandt
   eli+ at cs.cmu.edu