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Re: IBM US Patent #5,148,479

To: kent@BBN.COM
Subject: Re: IBM US Patent #5,148,479
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 17:10:24 -0800
Cc: jwlowe@vnet.ibm.com, ipsec@ans.net
In-Reply-To: <199412062304.AA26903@interlock.ans.net> (message from Steve Kent on Tue, 06 Dec 94 18:01:01 -0500)

>As a member of the IPSEC WG who is unable to attend this IETF meeting,
>I'd like to suggest that adoption of any of the key management
>proposals on the table at this IETF would be premature and, based on
>the usual level of new attendees, inappropriate.  It is nice that IBM

You can relax, Steve. The chances of us adopting *anything* at this
meeting are only slightly greater than the chances of the NSA
voluntarily publishing the Skipjack algorithm and abandoning all
export controls on cryptography.

Phil

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Re: IBM US Patent #5,148,479

From: Steve Kent <kent@BBN.COM>

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