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- From: ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt)
- Subject: Re: LUC Public-key Encryption
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.044723.791@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- References: <1992Dec11.134309.29150@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Dec11.171631.26834@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:47:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.171631.26834@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >He should not be able to patent this, since what he has done was all
- >known before.
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- Presumably this would be covered by the Merkle/Hellman patent. But
- would the fact that this is, I gather, isomorphic to RSA cause it to
- be covered by the R/S/A patent as well? Math patents raise tricky
- questions. If a reasonable argument could be made both that it is
- "obvious to one versed..." and that it is not directly covered by the
- R/S/A claims (I don't think you can control derivatives of your
- patent's claims), it could be useful.
-
- PGP 2 key by finger or e-mail (for research use only, of course)
- Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
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