Golden Key Campaign

[David Mazieres]

In article <199604251927.PAA27960 at jekyll.piermont.com> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> writes:

> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>
> cc: Bill Stewart <stewarts at ix.netcom.com>, cypherpunks at toad.com
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:27:04 -0400
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> Bill Frantz writes:
> > I will add to Bill's list:
> > 
> > 7) RSA is the best known and vetted of the Public Key algorithms.
> 
> Nota at all, Mr. Frantz. There are no proofs of security associated
> with RSA. Rabin has excellent proofs that breaking a message is
> strictly equivalent to factoring.

Isn't Rabin's algorithm patented, too?  Perhaps the licensing terms
are better.  Does anyone know for sure?

Thanks,
David