Coutrsy of Steve Bellovin - Next time someone complains about delays in RFC
publication, consider this...
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William Friedman filed a patent application for an Enigma-like encryption
device in 1933. The Patent Office awarded the patent this month:
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US06097812__&s_all=1
Bruce
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