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Re: [tahoe-dev] Surely M$ can patent this process?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mheyman@gmail.com)
Wed Jan 30 11:51:11 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:06:36 -0500
From: "mheyman@gmail.com" <mheyman@gmail.com>
To: zooko <zooko@zooko.com>
Cc: tahoe-dev@allmydata.org,
"theory and practice of decentralized computer networks" <p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com>,
Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <715BA506-132B-49F7-8008-306DB15B934A@zooko.com>
On Jan 27, 2008 11:18 AM, zooko <zooko@zooko.com> wrote:
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> below; Please trim your follow-ups as appropriate.]
>
> On Jan 26, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Gary Sumner wrote:
>
> > Surely there must be prior art on this technique to refute this
> > patent?
> >
>
> That's an interesting question, and I'm carbon-copying the p2p-
> hackers and cryptography mailing lists to ask if anyone knows.
>
FYI: <http://www.opencm.org/papers/cpcms2001.pdf>
"CPCMS: A Configuration Management System Based
on Cryptographic Names". Jonathan S. Shapiro, John
Vanderburgh, Systems Research Laboratory, Johns
Hopkins University. Appeared in the 2002 USENIX
Annual Technical Conference
-Michael Heyman
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