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Re: Property RIghts in Keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Mon Feb 16 22:19:37 2009
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: perry@piermont.com, sbg@acw.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, smb@cs.columbia.edu
In-Reply-To: <87k57vtvoz.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:55:39 +1300
[Moderator's note: my forwarding this is not an indication that I want
to continue the "are certs IP" discussion. --Perry]
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>However, a cert seems almost certainly *not* to be IP.
>
>[...]
>
>3) It can't be copyrighted, it contains no creativity.
You obviously haven't seen some of the certificates out there. I've seen
interpretations of the X.509 spec floating around that deserve a Hugo award.
Peter.
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