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Re: patent free(?) anonymous credential system pre-print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Branchaud)
Wed Nov 6 15:03:17 2002
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:50:34 -0800
From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@rsasecurity.com>
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>
Cc: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>, sbrands@videotron.ca,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com, dbs@philodox.com
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.
Absolutely. Which is precisely why we need an extension to patent
lifetimes.
If it's good enough for copyright...
M.
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