From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 94 12:36:50 PDT
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> From: Jeff Gostin <jgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us>
> Now that they have a real opponent, who can meet (and surpass) their
> level of gameplaying, it'll be interesting to see what happens.

I think some people are misinterpreting the situation.  The case
of DSS is atypical, because RSADSI doesn't hold a patent on DSS.
They hold another patent which they claim can be stretched to
cover DSS; NIST's and ATT's lawyers apparently disagree.

This is different from, say, using RSA.  They hold a patent which
does quite clearly cover RSA.

   Eli   ebrandt@hmc.edu