From: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:01:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: \"Concryption\"
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A little birdie (anonymous@freezone.remailer) said:
>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.
>
I doubt that it could be awkward, given that my employer, Aladdin Systems,
has been shipping a software package that implements this since 1986. :-)


-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Aladdin Systems   <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu>

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