From: tribble@memex.com (E. Dean Tribble)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 00:35:20 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Tough Choices: PGP vs. RSA Data Security
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	 >Problems with RSAREF/RIPEM:
	 >1. Use of RSAREF/RIPEM in support of a commercial enterprise is 
	 >prohibited without paying a licence fee. Note that they can get 
	 >you on copyright violations rather than patent infringement 
	 >if you break the RSAREF licence agreement. 

	 For those of you looking around for a good cypherpunk-style project, a
	 rewrite of RSAREF with an identical interface (external and some of
	 the internal) would be a good idea.  Such a body of code would prevent
	 RSADSI from using copyright as leverage against a non-US company or
	 person.

It would be even nicer if this was done by someone outside the US.
This avoids the export problem.

dean