From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 14:19:51 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.

Eric