From: markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Date: Sat, 1 May 93 11:56:15 PDT
To: Eli Brandt <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: validity of the RSA patent
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> > Consider use of another public key encryption scheme, say LUC encryption.
> 
> Which, of course, is patent-pending.  It appears that we can no more
> make progress in cryptography in the face of algorithm patents than
> we could advance mathematics under the burden of theorem licensing.
> We can't afford to wait until 2001.

On the other hand, perhaps the patent holder of LUC would be willing
to licence LUC for use in a PGP-like tool (or PGP 3.0) on the same basis 
IDEA is now licenced to PGP users. (i.e. non-commerical use is OK. Even 
certain commercial use is OK.)

This might solve a lot of our problems.

Has anybody asked? I can't be the first person to have considered
asking. 

Mark

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Mark Henderson
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