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[FYI] UK: Baltimore Technologies will offer one of its key developer toolkit products for free from its website.
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- Subject: [FYI] UK: Baltimore Technologies will offer one of its key developer toolkit products for free from its website.
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:46:19 +0200
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http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38635,00.html
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Digital Security for Free
by Karlin Lillington
3:30 p.m. Sep. 7, 2000 PDT
DUBLIN, Ireland -- In a surprise move following Wednesday's release
of the patent on the main security algorithm used in digital security
products, Baltimore Technologies will offer one of its key developer
toolkit products for free from its website.
In the past, the toolkit elements would have cost developers $10,000
to $20,000.
[...]
"Over the past two decades the RSA patent and other public key
patents did more to suppress the deployment of public key
cryptography than the NSA," said Phil Zimmerman, inventor of personal
cryptography product Pretty Good Privacy.
[...]
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