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This option existed only because RC5 is covered by patents that, twenty years ago, we had reason to suspect the patent holder, RSA, Inc., might litigate. The two US patents in question are 5,724,428 and 5,835,600. According to the USPTO Patent Term Calculator web site at <https://www.uspto.gov/patent/laws-and-regulations/patent-term-calculator#heading-5> (retrieved 2017-05-21), patents filed after 1995-06-07 expire twenty years after the filing date. number filing date 5,724,428 1995-11-01 5,835,600 1997-04-21 Thus, these patents appear to be expired. As proposed on tech-crypto and tech-security: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-crypto/2017/05/05/msg000718.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2017/05/05/msg000927.html |
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