John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >>http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6993661 >Gee, the inventor is Simson Garfinkel, who's written a bunch of books >including Database Nation, published in 2000 by O'Reilly, about all the way >the public and private actors are spying on us. > >I wonder whether this was research to see how hard it was to get the PTO to >grant an absurd patent.
It does seem a bit puzzling... could it be a defensive patent? There were MSDOS OTFE programs doing exactly this more than 15 years ago. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
