From: Doug Porter <dporter@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 03:41:07 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re:  Blasting Bidzos Blather
Message-ID: <93Jun19.034042pdt.13994-2@well.sf.ca.us>
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> NIST had no choice

Pure bull puckey. 

First, they could have let DSA die. The commercial sector, particularly 
banks, would have come up with alternatives we could trust.

Second, they could do what competent engineers have done for many 
decades: designed around inconvenient patents. 

Third, if they knew they weren't up to it, they could have asked for 
public help in that design.

Fourth, they could have challenged PKP's patents on their merits.

Fifth, they could have worked to get those patents declared void in the 
public interest. I personally don't support this one until PKP is shown 
to be primarily government controlled.

They did none of these things. Why?

Doug