> RSA the company or RSA the algorithm?
>The latter. RSA the company released it two weeks before the patent expired,
which demonstrates that they're only 99.99% bastards.
> I don't see how the patent expiry will kill either of them. RSA the
> algorithm is widely used. Developers who are using RSA Security Inc.'s
> BSAFE toolkit won't be too keen on rebuilding their code around another
> toolkit. And RSA Security Inc. has known all along that the patent will
> expire and if they haven't planned for it, they will have some very unhappy
> shareholders on their hands.
>It won't kill anything. (I didn't say it would - I meant "the patent is dead".
Sorry 'bout da.) But now developers don't have to licence it anymore, cutting
costs significantly. All to the greater good for security and cryptography. The
question now is whether Baltimore will Open Source the "Lite" developer toolkit,
or release it under a restrictive licence.
adam
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