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1997-12-17 - Re: UK spooks invent RSA, DH in 1973

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From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
To: Jim Burnes <jya@pipeline.com>
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Message ID: <3.0.5.32.19971217104018.007dd380@otc.net>
Reply To: <1.5.4.32.19971217041639.00758bfc@pop.pipeline.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-12-17 18:50:44 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 02:50:44 +0800

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From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 02:50:44 +0800
To: Jim Burnes <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: UK spooks invent RSA, DH in 1973
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At 10:18 AM 12/17/97 -0700, Jim Burnes wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, John Young wrote:
>
>> Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> 
>> >There's an interesting paper at http://www.cesg.gov.uk/ellisint.htm which 
>> >claims that UK spooks invented both RSA and DH in 1973 and 1974
respectively.
>> 
>> We've converted the Ellis Postscript doc to HTML:
>> 
>>      http://jya.com/ellisdoc.htm
>
>Can patents be revoked due to prior art arguments?
>
>Jim Burnes

Prior art in the public eye, yes.   Secret unpatented stuff can be patented
when
described in the open the first time.


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