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Re: UK spooks invent RSA, DH in 1973




At 10:18 AM 12/17/97 -0700, Jim Burnes wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, John Young wrote:
>
>> Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> 
>> >There's an interesting paper at http://www.cesg.gov.uk/ellisint.htm which 
>> >claims that UK spooks invented both RSA and DH in 1973 and 1974
respectively.
>> 
>> We've converted the Ellis Postscript doc to HTML:
>> 
>>      http://jya.com/ellisdoc.htm
>
>Can patents be revoked due to prior art arguments?
>
>Jim Burnes

Prior art in the public eye, yes.   Secret unpatented stuff can be patented
when
described in the open the first time.


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