[14130] in Cypherpunks
Re: Graph isomorphism based PK cryptosystems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 25 11:49:38 1994
To: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
Cc: perry@imsi.com, jpp@jpplap.markv.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 May 1994 08:36:21 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 11:43:20 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Harry Bartholomew says:
> > Jay Prime Positive says:
> > > I only worry that if I publish, it could be patented. And I don't
> > > want the algorithm to end up in the hands of the software patent
> > > folks. Especially if they will be making money off it, and I wont.
> >
> > If you publish, only you could patent it. There is only danger if you
> > don't publish, in which case others can independently make the same
> > discovery and patent it.
> >
> > Perry
>
> But you would then need to file within one year of the publication
> date I think.
His whole point was that he wanted to render the process unpatentable.
Perry
