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RSA Party Planner
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 02:06:43 -0500
http://www.shmoo.com/rsa/ In late September, 2000, the RSA Patent expires. Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman, Public Key Cryptography's most famous supergroup, developed this algorithm about 20 years ago. So, between the US constitutution, dubious behavior on the part of the US Patent office ("and other government agencies") and international treaty organizations, here we are at the dawn of a new millenium and we're about to have access to free-range biprime asymmetric cryptography. The Date The Shmoo currently interpret the date to be September 20th, 2000, midnight local time, for the actual expiration. There has been MUCH discussion of this, and if you think this is wrong, send us email, or, better, post something sane and coherent with your logic on the DCSB, or Cryptography, or some other relevant mailing list. If you are planning a party, tell us. We're going to make a list, and post it here. Please send us: URL of the party site EMail contact a small image URL if you have one. Known Parties Bay Area (SF/San Jose/etc.): Cypherpunks, Certicom, others are planning a 'composite' party. Check out the Cryptorights site for more info. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Boston, Massachusetts: DCSB (see mailing list at dcsb () ai mit edu) Contact is Robert Hettinga Party on, cypherpunks! *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ================================================================ C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org *==============================================================* ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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