1994-09-15 - Re: RC4 compatibility testing

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From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: perry@imsi.com
Message Hash: 7e993774e4914958fae40ae8267c09197566b0ddd6bd1eef3010e748d1059384
Message ID: <199409152323.QAA19842@servo.qualcomm.com>
Reply To: <9409151556.AA04764@snark.imsi.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-09-15 23:24:17 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 16:24:17 PDT

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From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 16:24:17 PDT
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Re: RC4 compatibility testing
In-Reply-To: <9409151556.AA04764@snark.imsi.com>
Message-ID: <199409152323.QAA19842@servo.qualcomm.com>
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>Basically, what you do is use administrative tricks to delay the
>patent from being issued for as many years as possible -- sometimes
>decades -- while the idea becomes popular and gets incorporated into
>lots of products. Patent applications in the U.S. are kept secret by

FYI, there's a bill pending in the Senate that would change the term
of a US patent from 17 years from grant to 20 years from filing.  The
specific intent is to deal with "submarine" patents.

I understand it has already become quite controversial...

Phil

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• 1994-09-14 (Tue, 13 Sep 94 18:38:18 PDT) - RC4 compatibility testing - ekr@eit.COM (Eric Rescorla)
  • 1994-09-14 (Tue, 13 Sep 94 20:05:32 PDT) - RC4 compatibility testing - Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
  • 1994-09-14 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 13:50:41 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
    • 1994-09-14 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 14:00:16 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
      • 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 17:25:17 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
        • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 05:27:36 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
          • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 08:26:33 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
            • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 08:56:58 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
              • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 16:24:17 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
            • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:35:36 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Random Factor <sq0nk@alt.anonymous.messages>