From: Mark Voorhees <0006368931@mcimail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 12:29:01 PDT
To: werner <werner@mc.ab.com>
Subject: Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
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>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.