From: Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:49:49 PDT
To: raph@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Raph Levien)
Subject: Re: CJR for perl-RSA t-shirt
In-Reply-To: <199510012231.PAA00669@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <199510120047.KAA13489@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
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Hello Raph Levien <raph@CS.Berkeley.EDU>

You write:
> Here is a draft of the CJR I intend to file, for the perl-RSA t-shirt.
...

IANAL, and I know absolutely *nothing* about what a CJR should look like.

...
> ORIGIN OF COMMODITY
...
> The cryptographic algorithm implemented in this t-shirt comes from
> various sources, at various times, and was produced with both private
> and public sources of funding.

I don't think this is accurate: I guess this applies to the book
which contains several algorithms. As far as I know, the RSA alg.
comes from one source at one time.

...
> CURRENT USE
> 
> The t-shirt is intended as an implementation of the RSA cipher for
> those who wish to incorporate encryption into their communications.
> The small size of the implementation makes it particularly useful in
> contexts in which existing cryptographic infrastructure is not
> available.
...

Perhaps somebody should make IDEA shorts?

Then it would be interoperable with PGP...
(Would tooooo. You just have to remember what the header is.)


Hope that makes sense...

Jiri
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