PGP & TAB

[John Thompson]

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:43:03 +0000, Winfried Tilanus wrote:

>2) Patent / copyright issues. Because of the US patent on the RSA
>algorithms, you may only use it in the US after paying a fee.
>
>So it is illegal in the US to use an international version of pgp with
>RSA encryption without paying a license fee.

The license fee for RSA is only for commercial use.  It is still free for
personal use but using anything other than RSA's implementation
technically violates US copyright law.

John (john.thompson@ibm.net)