[113842] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: patent of the day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Jan 23 08:48:03 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, johnl@iecc.com
Cc: perry@piermont.com
In-Reply-To: <20080123043620.77038.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:19:05 +1300
John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
>In article <87zluxfccw.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com> you write:
>>http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6993661
>Gee, the inventor is Simson Garfinkel, who's written a bunch of books
>including Database Nation, published in 2000 by O'Reilly, about all the way
>the public and private actors are spying on us.
>
>I wonder whether this was research to see how hard it was to get the PTO to
>grant an absurd patent.
It does seem a bit puzzling... could it be a defensive patent? There were
MSDOS OTFE programs doing exactly this more than 15 years ago.
Peter.
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