Re: RSA letter to ISOC

At 9:40 AM -0700 9/27/97, Graham Klyne wrote:
> Does this mean that that RSADSI's patent control over the RSA *algorithm*
> is being relinquished?
No. The word "patent" didn't appear anywhere in what they gave up.
Copyrights and trademarks are different than patents.

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