From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 13:17:27 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (cypherpunks)
Subject: Re: Crypto Regulation Reform
In-Reply-To: <9402091330.AA11900@vail.tivoli.com>
Message-ID: <199402092116.NAA28863@netcom8.netcom.com>
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Mike McNally sez:
> 
> 
> Robert Cain writes:
>  > > Would disclosing the encryption algorithm put your patent claim at
>  > > risk?
>  > 
>  > 'Fraid so.  R, S and A almost blew it by disclosing theirs in a paper
>  > before filing.  
> 
> So your encryption algorithm (not the key exchange part; the
> bit-stream encryptor) is not a well-known (or at least published)
> algorithm?  Hmm...

No, I am doing the same kind of thing as most people, using my protocol
to exchange an IDEA key for the actual real-time decrencr.  (Short word
I just coined for decryptor/encryptor as in modem or codec :-)


Peace,

Bob

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Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-354-8021


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