Re: Permanent Privacy - Are Snake Oil Patents a threat?

2008-07-10 Thread Brecht Wyseur
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:02 +1200, David G. Koontz wrote: I did a quick check to look for patent applications or patents by them and didn't find any. This isn't definitive if a patent application isn't published. The newest published patent application I found on encryption had an

Re: Permanent Privacy - Are Snake Oil Patents a threat?

2008-07-09 Thread David G. Koontz
Ali, Saqib wrote: Quoting the Foxbusiness article: Permanent Privacy (patent pending) has been verified by Peter Schweitzer, one of Harvard's top cryptanalysts, and for the inevitable cynics Permanent Privacy is offering $1,000,000 to anyone who can decipher a sample of ciphertext. I did a

Re: Permanent Privacy - Are Snake Oil Patents a threat?

2008-07-09 Thread Leichter, Jerry
| ...Obviously patents could be improved by searching further across | disciplines for prior art and by having more USPTO expertise. We're | also seeing a dumbing down of the 'Persons Having Ordinary Skill In | the Art' as the number of practitioners expand rapidly. Patent law and its