[146547] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [Cryptography] A strategy to circumvent patents?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Tue Sep 3 17:13:11 2013
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From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:20:17 -0400
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