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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 22:16:02 -0400
David Jablon writes:
> Dr. Schnorr wrote:
> >> [...] The principal goal of the
> >> DSS design is to steal the core of that invention. The recipe for
> >> such robbery is well known:
>
> At 01:10 PM 8/10/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >Might I suggest that you leave the vitriol to the courts? CodherPlunks
> >is not for this sort of discussion.
>
> Aside from the emotional twist, the topic seems relevant to me.
> Schnorr's factual statements seem reasonable, even if the
> interpretation is one-sided. Perhaps NIST did try to "steal",
> in a moral sense, the essence of Schnorr's method by creating
> a non-infringing alternative. But they still played by the
> rules of the game.
Whether they tried to steal it or not isn't relevant to CodherPlunks,
which is forum about cryptographic technology, and not politics. The
question of motivation and such are wholely outside of local scope.
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:57