re pgp pem and rfc s was cryptography patents in article apr natasha portal com bob natasha portal com bob cain writes check your facts first and grow up why is there such a strong correlation between interest in cryptography and immaturity i wonder hmmm check your facts good advice let s check mr cain s facts a bit shall we charles kincy ckincy cs umr edu wrote some limitation let me guess don t use the code in any way pkp or rsa doesn t like such as providing secure communications for the average citizen that was exactly its purpose if you know anything about it there is nothing at all preventing the average citizen using it only selling it fact it is unlawful to distribute code implementing rsa without a license to do so from pkp whether or not one is charging for it furthermore any use of rsa other than for research purposes allowed under us patent law is similarly unlawful therefore the average citizen cannot use rsa to encrypt message traffic in the us without a license from pkp there is no licensed freely available product in the us that uses rsa encryption other than rsaref and hence ripem at least as far as i am aware if you know of another please post it here all i have to say is yeah right if you re willing to pay them mucho big bucks and or use the routines they tell you to do doesn t sound very reasonable to me all i have to say is this is full of shit i have negotiated a license and the bucks are incredibly reasonable with an upfront charge on a sliding scale depending on your capitalization if you are a startup and can t afford it you can t afford to start up in the first place why do people insist on making unequivocal statements about that which they know nothing fact the last contact i had with rsa data security inc was with some guy trying to sell me a license unsolicited i might add for tipem cost k plus percent royalties i suppose it is a matter of opinion as to whether or not these terms count as mucho bucks or incredibly reasonable either way however this definitely falls into the routines they tell you to use but i don t guess pkp and rsa are interested in big bucks maybe they have some other agenda secure communications only for government agents perhaps have you considered treatment for paranoia the government is the single biggest thorn in rsa s side fact there are no restrictions yet on the use of cryptography under us law although this is beginning to look like it will change the only impediments to widespread use of rsa cryptography in the us are pkp s patents mr cain please shut up until you get your facts straight better than the whole world be destroyed and crumble to dust than a free man deny one of his desires benito mussolini italian anarchist and poet jack eifrig eifrig cs jhu edu the johns hopkins university c s dept
