At least with a Patent they disclose how they are doing the process to the USPTO. When GHCQ created public key cryptography they didn't disclose the concept and

At least with a Patent they disclose how they are doing the process to the USPTO. When GHCQ created public key cryptography they didn't disclose the concept and it had to be reinvented by Academics (Not to discount the researchers because they moved it much farther though). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Histor...