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[FYI] UK: Baltimore Technologies will offer one of its key developer toolkit products for free from its website.



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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