[46540] in Cypherpunks
Re: \"Concryption\"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (attila)
Fri Jan 5 03:06:39 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 07:56:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: attila <attila@primenet.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601050105.UAA29900@light.lightlink.com>
On Thu, 4 Jan 1996 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.
>
thought that myself when I first read it -- did that at least 15
years with the standard unix compress --broke compress into a single
library module, fed itfrom the input buffer and directly fed it to an
RSA style paired key unit and streamed it out whereever specified
--yes, it was far more efficient than two programs --and that was on
my VAXEN (780)!
however, I guess they think they have reinvented the world and no
one ever tried to patent the process. patents are not worth the paper
they are printed on in general --I stopped filing in 1975. I was
supporting ignorant patent lawyers who could not even write the
claims! That, and feds took away a nuber of patents in the national
interest, which of course they deny as they scrubbed the rcords
clean....
so, let's see if he can enforce it!
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