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Re: Property RIghts in Keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Feb 13 16:53:02 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: sbg@acw.com, "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:25:30 +0100
In-Reply-To: <87k57vtvoz.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's
message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:24:28 -0500")
[Moderator's note: I've been clamping down on the IP discussion since
not much more really new was being said, but I'm allowing this through
because it brings up an interesting side point -- I will reply to it
to move to that discussion. --Perry]
* Perry E. Metzger:
> However, a cert seems almost certainly *not* to be IP.
>
> 1) It can't be a trade secret, it is published.
> 2) It can't be patented.
> 3) It can't be copyrighted, it contains no creativity.
4) It can't be trademarked because the company named in the DN is long
gone
(It's quite strange that so many of the browser root certs use DNs
which aren't correct anymore.)
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