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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

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.

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"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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