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RSA did not "rob the collective human intelligence pool." It empowered us all and inspired others' patent-free works, like El-Gamal. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
by billsix 14y ago
RSA did not "rob the collective human intelligence pool." It empowered us all and inspired others' patent-free works, like El-Gamal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)
- tptacek 14y agoThe RSA patents had a chilling effect on commercial deployment of any public key crypto... not that that's the worst thing in the world given its track record.