jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:
> } > } 	rc5  (patented in the US by RSA)
> } > } 	rsa  (patented in the US)
> } > } 	dsa  (patent claimed by RSA in the US)
> } > 
[...]
>      Although, the US is a fairly large country, I didn't realise that
> it constituted a large chunk of the world.  Nobody has made any claim
> that the above items are patented anywhere other then the US.  

Schnorr has US, EU and Japaneses patents, licensed to RSA, that he
claims cover DSA[1]--so DSA isn't US only.

[1] http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/letters/SchnorrMar98.html

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