Bidzos responds to "sellout" cry!

I expressed my displeasure over PKP/RSA's apparent support for Clipper/
Capstone/Key Escrow to RSA's head, Jim Bidzos.  Here's his reply.


Quoth Jim Bidzos, verily I saith unto thee:

> From jim@RSA.COM Wed Jun 16 13:03:04 1993
> 	id <AA05248>; Wed, 16 Jun 1993 13:03:01 -0600
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 12:01:09 PDT
> From: jim@RSA.COM (Jim Bidzos)
> Message-Id: <9306161901.AA16476@RSA.COM>
> To: anton@hydra.unm.edu
> In-Reply-To: Stanton McCandlish's message of Sun, 13 Jun 1993 23:01:03 -0600 (MDT) <9306140501.AA13212@hydra.unm.edu>
> Subject: hmph
> 
> 
> RSA/PKP supporting Clipper? Where did you hear that? (It's untrue.)
> For a year and a half, we have been claiming that DSS is covered by
> patents we hold.  NIST has finally stopped fighting, and asked for
> licensing terms. We provided them.  Hardly "support for Clipper."
> 
> --Jim
> 
> 


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> RSA/PKP supporting Clipper? Where did you hear that? (It's untrue.)

Quote this paragraph:

    PKP will also grant a license to practice key management, at no
    additional fee, for the integrated circuits which will implement both
    the DSA and the anticipated Federal Information Processing Standard
    for the "key escrow" system announced by President Clinton on April
    16, 1993.

I'm not going to respond directly to him, since I don't know if you
want him to know you reforwarded his mail.  However, I would make the
argument that if RSA really didn't want the clipper chip, they would
license it to NIST in such a way that "all implementations based on
our patents will be made available in software source form for
non-commercial use".  I'm sure legal language can be constructed which
would prohibit hardware-only implementations.  I couldn't write it
though.

		Marc