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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Disclosing a new encryption method (the other side)
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:15:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.182902.29740@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.182902.29740@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> butzerd@columbia.eng.ohio-state.edu (Dane C. Butzer) writes:
- >
- >-To make $$$$ off of it, I should get it patented, but
- >
- >-To convice myself to spend the $5,000 or $10,000 to get a GOOD lawyer to
- > patent it, I want to run the challenge, but
- >
- >-To run the challenge, people want me to publish the encryption method
-
-
- The answer is simple:
-
- 1. learn cryptanalysis and practice it, by breaking a couple of systems
- similar to the one you're proposing (but obviously simpler :-)
- as well as ones which have been broken in the past (eg., Enigma,
- Hebern, pencil-and-paper methods, ...).
-
- 2. if you still believe it's a good system, enlist the help of
- someone even more talented than yourself. Get a non-disclosure
- agreement signed by that person (preserving your patent rights)
- and possibly pay the consultant. Get the consultant's expert
- advice.
-
- 3. file the patent, both in the US and abroad, simultaneously. (Don't
- just file in the US first and refer in the foreign patents to the
- US application -- file full disclosures overseas -- possibly even
- a week or two before filing in the US -- to prevent a secrecy order
- being placed on the patent application).
-
- 4. publish the idea.
-
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