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Allow RSA mandatory after September 20, 2000 ?
Up to now, the IETF WGs and the IESG have mandated the DSA and
Diffie-Hellman algorithms only, since the RSA algorithm was
patented. On September 20, 2000 the RSA patent will expire, so this
allows the IESG to reconsider the issue.
I would like the co-chairs to raise this issue to the IESG, so that
for any Standard (not Proposed Standard) issued after September 20,
2000, we can, if this is a WG decision, mandate the RSA algorithm.
Denis