Cylink license fees
Douglas Barnes
cman at communities.com
Thu Oct 12 12:00:07 PDT 1995
I just received a very informative package of information
from Bob Fougner at Cylink, which, in addition to a copy
of the relevant patents and hardcopy of the materials
available on their web page, contains a "limited time offer" to
license their patents in one of three ways:
1) Practice of DH Key exchange & DSS: $50,000
2) Right to use & distribute RSA: $62,500
3) Ulimited field of use to practice
public key: $75,000
Those interested in obtaining this information should
probably fax him at 408-735-6642 with a request for
the info. Much of the information is available online
at: http://www.cylink.com.
Obviously, anyone wishing to practice RSA would also
need to get a license from RSADSI.
Also, it is my impression that are claiming Hellman-Merkle
as the precursor patent to RSA, which means that this
situation will prevail at least through late 1997, not early
1997 (when Hellman-Diffie expires.)
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