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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@ridgecrest.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Ada & Encryption / Compression
Date: 1997/03/06
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kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <Pine.GSO.3.93.970305115055.7933B-100000@sky.net>, John Howard <jhoward@sky.net> writes:
> > Forget about doing your own RSA encryption.
> > 1)  RSA is patented.  You'd have to wait for the patent to expire.
> 
> 	a. comp.lang.ada has international circulation.  RSA is only
> 	   patented in the United States.

The patent (#4,405,829) expires in the US on September 20, 2000.

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