forward secrecy in mixmaster
Bill Frantz
frantz at netcom.com
Tue Sep 10 16:53:45 PDT 1996
At 9:29 PM 9/10/96 +0200, Germano Caronni wrote:
>Just a short note. The DH patent (#4200770), as held by Cylink expires at
>the 29th of april '97. Afterwards DH enters the public domain. That's a
>certain argument for using DH key exchange. RSA will go into the public
>domain somewhen in 2002, if I remember correctly.
The US patent for RSA expires September 20, 2000 according to Applied
Cryptography Second Edition, p474.
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