Re: GAK patents, anyone?

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 5:25 PM -0700 9/8/97, Alan wrote:
>At 01:34 AM 9/9/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>>
>>Anyone want to guess how long until they will give 'key escrow' systems
>>special protection?
>>
>>(Actually that would be a good thing, because it would make GAK more
>>expensive :-)
>
>It would be interesting to find out what they would do if someone patented
>all the good GAK methods and then held on to the patents .
>
>Sounds like a job for Ron Rivest or Matt Blaze. ]:>

Actually, one of the UC Berkeley professors actually *got* a patent on key
escrow methods.  Micali, as I recall.

As for the "expedited patents" bullshit, that's an abuse of the patent
process, to support certain political goals by expediting certain
applications and (obviously, given ontological realities) delaying others.

As for terrorism, the United States is basically the major
terrorism-supporting state in the world.

--Tim May

There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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