RE: Legal claims on encryption and authentication algorithm

[Stuart Jacobs <[e-mail]>]

The RSA patent expires in September of 2000

At 1/28/99 01:33 PM, you wrote:
>The DES patent is owned by IBM, but IBM has waived the license 
>fee, i.e. anyone can use DES free of charge.
>
>The DES patent is **not** owned by RSA Data Security.
>
>On a sidenote, the patent for the RSA public key algorithm will expire 
>in how many months?  11?  13?   :-)))
>
>Greg Glawitsch
>Network Associates, Inc.
>
>> In case this group has not heard, RSA Data Security has
>> clarified that there is no charge for using the DESX algorithm,
>> which is described in draft-simpson-desx-02.txt.
>>           --Bob Baldwin
>>             Technical Director
>>             RSA Data Security
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 7:52 AM
>> To: [e-mail]
>> Subject: Legal claims on encryption and authentication algorithm
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>>      While reading RFC 1321, I noted that if we use MD5, we must state
>> that
>> it was developped by RSA Data Security, Inc.
>>      We use other encryption and authentication algorithms. Is there any
>> legal claims (copyrights, patents, etc.) tied to the following algorithms?
>> - Blowfish
>> - DES
>> - 3DES
>> - SHA-1
>>      Thank you
> 
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