From: Jonathan Zamick <JonathanZ@consensus.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 10:19:01 PDT
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Subject: Re: IDEA algorithm
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At 7:50 PM 10/12/95, Adam Shostack wrote:
>| (Btw... what would be the absolute coolest thing folk would like to see
>| added to RSAREF? That is, other than code that we will need to negotiate
>| for. What new thing, speed upgrade, enhancement, etc would just tickle?)
>
>        Consistant pricing.  The knowledge that any app I develop
>using RSAREF can be made into licensed for commercial use product for
>a set, known, published fee.  This would be the biggest win for
>Consensus.

To some degree that is already true. There is no upfront cost for the
licensing, so it is straight royalty based. Right now its 5-4% declining
with gross sales.

>        Another really big win would be to add more entry points to
>the code to legitimize Wei Dai's excellent Crypto++ library, which has
>to jump in at all sorts of unpublished interfaces.

I'll look into this one. We have the ability to add more entry points. Thanks.
That is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to get.

>Adam

Jonathan

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