Golden Key Campaign

[Perry E. Metzger]

sameer at c2.org writes:
> > David Mazieres writes:
> > > Isn't Rabin's algorithm patented, too?
> > 
> > There is no patent on Rabin per se.
> 	What do you mean by "per se"? 

Rabin is covered by the patents on public key itself. It is the
contention of RSA DSI that the patent on RSA claims all public key
methods that use exponentiation. I do not believe this to be the case,
but I am not the god of patents. There is no direct patent on Rabin,
however.

Perry