[46520] in Cypherpunks
Re: \"Concryption\"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jan 4 22:22:51 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 19:13:58 -0800
To: anonymous@freezone.remailer, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
At 20:05 1/4/96 -0500, anonymous@freezone.remailer wrote:
>Does anyone understand what this "Concryption" really is? Reading the
>press blurbs, it could be nothing more than simply compressing the
>stream before encrypting it. A patent on that idea would be rather
>awkward.
What I interpreted their press release as saying was that they had patented
the idea of doing the compression AND the encryption in one pass over the
data. If they got a patent for this, then the patent office has totally
lost the concept that in order to be patentable, the idea must not be
obvious to those well versed in the state of the art.
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