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Re: Legal claims on encryption and authentication algorithm
"Glawitsch, Gregor" wrote:
>
> The DES patent is owned by IBM, but IBM has waived the license
> fee, i.e. anyone can use DES free of charge.
>
> The DES patent is **not** owned by RSA Data Security.
Correct, but he was discussing DESX.
> > In case this group has not heard, RSA Data Security has
> > clarified that there is no charge for using the DESX algorithm,
> > which is described in draft-simpson-desx-02.txt.
> > --Bob Baldwin
> > Technical Director
> > RSA Data Security
DESX was invented by RSA's Rivest, if I recall correctly, so RSA
(could? do?) claim rights to it, subject I suppose to negotiation
with IBM who own DES.
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