[14705] in Cypherpunks
Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Voorhees)
Fri Jun 3 15:36:49 1994
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 14:27 EST
From: Mark Voorhees <0006368931@mcimail.com>
To: werner <werner@mc.ab.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
>Since when can the government patent its work? I thought that works
>produced by government agencies could not be copyrighted or patented.
No. The patent on the digital signature algorithm, the basis of the new
digital signature standard, for example, is held by NIST.
