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Re: Legal claims on encryption and authentication algorithm
In message <5F6AA2CAD4A4D1119C3D00A0C99D6AC6B83CBE@ca-exchange2.nai.com>, "Glaw
itsch, Gregor" writes:
> The DES patent is owned by IBM, but IBM has waived the license
> fee, i.e. anyone can use DES free of charge.
And it expired some years ago.
>
> The DES patent is **not** owned by RSA Data Security.
>
> On a sidenote, the patent for the RSA public key algorithm will expire
> in how many months? 11? 13? :-)))
Early September, 2000, as I recall.