RE: [Algorithms] pissing in the well [was: Collision detection pa tent]

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Matthew Davies wrote:

> Wasn't the reason why there were two version of PGP was because of software
> patents surrounding the RSA technology and that it only affected the US
> version.  The international version was free of such restrictions.  Or am I
> barking up the wrong tree?  Perhaps this is the wrong discussion forum - but
> it worries me that my work here can be affected by a seemingly incompetent
> US Patents department.
 
I'm guessing that a cryptography technology would be treated as needing
an export license - because (technically) it's a military weapon!

The US has some nasty laws about exporting strong cryptography algorithms.


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