[48163] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Concryption" Prior Art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Rosenberg)
Fri Jan 26 13:46:19 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:39:51 -0500
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 19:04 1/26/96, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
>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.