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1996-10-03 - Re: Fighting Clipper III

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From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-03 23:23:04 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 07:23:04 +0800

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From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 07:23:04 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Fighting Clipper III
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Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org> writes:
>You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't
>use Netscape Navigator or PGP?

Actually RSA is not a hard target for people like us to threaten.  The
Diffie-Hellman patent expires in 210 days.  Cylink is prevented from taking
legal action against anyone for violating this patent while the current
lawsuit is being decided.  When Diffie-Hellman expires ElGamal is available
for use for free.  So the best threat one can make against RSA is to directly
challenge their revenue stream: start working on making ElGamal an available
option in all systems which use RSA.

jim

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