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Re: Quick Triple-DES Q

2000-06-20 06:41:29
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:30:59PM +0800, Erron Criddle wrote:
To all,

Has RSA allowed a royalty/payment free use of the Triple-DES algorithm for 
use in the OpenPGP standard?

        AFAIK, RSA has no IP encumberances on DES or 3-DES what so ever.
The patent on the RSA algorithm expires in a few months at which time
RSA labs loses their IP encumberance on that.

TIA.


Regards



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