[11983] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: patent free(?) anonymous credential system pre-print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Nov 6 01:28:52 2002
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0211051640240.15402-100000@newbolt.sonic.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:24:41 -0800
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
At 5:15 PM -0800 11/5/02, bear wrote:
>It's not terribly helpful for someone to lock up an idea for twenty
>years, but honestly it may be at least that long before the legal and
>cultural infrastructure is ready to fully take advantage of it anyway.
The classic example is Arthur C. Clarke's invention of the communication
satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945. Never mind that the
rockets to launch such satellites were not available until the 1960s.
Cheers - Bill
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