17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
However the Con-cryption patent covers first compressing, then encrypting.
Isn't that how PGP does its thing (first compress the data and then feed it into the Encryption Stage)? PGP is prior art in-and-of-itself.
Peter Wayner posted that the "new" thing about the way they do it is that it saves time by combining the steps. But I think I've seen approximately the same done with arithmetic-coding compression? #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 # # "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" used to mean us watching # the government, not the other way around....