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- From: schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier)
- Subject: Re: PKP patents (legal question)
- Message-ID: <BzrtxJ.18s@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <168C761F.UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:03:18 GMT
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- In article <168C761F.UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu> UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu (John M. Kelsey) writes:
- > Does PKP hold patents to *all* forms of public-key cryptology, including
- >those methods still undiscovered? Or do they simply hold the patent to
- >all public key methods currently known? Or neither?
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- PKP claims that patent 4,218,582 covers the very concept of public-key
- cryptography, and hence applies to all methods discovered and undiscovered.
- Many disupte this claim, although it has never been tested in the courts.
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- Want to be a test case?
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- Bruce
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