What the NSA is patenting...

[pstira at escape.com]

On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Bruce Schneier wrote:

> I just spent a pleasant hour or so searching a patent database for all
> patents assigned to the NSA.  There's some interesting stuff:
> 
> 	"Self-locking, tamper-evident package"
> 	Method of retrieving documents that concern the same topic"
> 

Oh Bruce, Bruce, Bruce,
Say it ain't so -- the NSA is trying to patent the

                   GUMMED ENVELOPE ???!

*NOW* I have truly seen everything.

-Millie.