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Quick ping about Surety Technologies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Dec 9 16:28:45 1998
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 00:08:46 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 00:04:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Somebody
To: rah@shipwright.com
Subject: Quick ping about Surety Technologies
Do you know anything about Surety's claim to have a patent on
digitally signed document timestamps? Seems a little suspicious to
me, but I haven't been following that end of things very closely
recently...
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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