Re: Crypto Regulation Reform
Robert Cain writes:
Would disclosing the encryption algorithm put your patent claim at risk?
'Fraid so. R, S and A almost blew it by disclosing theirs in a paper before filing.
So your encryption algorithm (not the key exchange part; the bit-stream encryptor) is not a well-known (or at least published) algorithm? Hmm... -- | GOOD TIME FOR MOVIE - GOING ||| Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com> | | TAKE TWA TO CAIRO. ||| Tivoli Systems, Austin, TX: | | (actual fortune cookie) ||| "Like A Little Bit of Semi-Heaven" |
Mike McNally sez:
Robert Cain writes:
Would disclosing the encryption algorithm put your patent claim at risk?
'Fraid so. R, S and A almost blew it by disclosing theirs in a paper before filing.
So your encryption algorithm (not the key exchange part; the bit-stream encryptor) is not a well-known (or at least published) algorithm? Hmm...
No, I am doing the same kind of thing as most people, using my protocol to exchange an IDEA key for the actual real-time decrencr. (Short word I just coined for decryptor/encryptor as in modem or codec :-) Peace, Bob -- Bob Cain rcain@netcom.com 408-354-8021 "I used to be different. But now I'm the same." --------------PGP 1.0 or 2.0 public key available on request.------------------
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