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"The thing I can accept are cryptographic algorithms, since as an outcome we get a product" Of all the things... Cryptography is math in this day and age. Pa
by betterunix 14y ago
"The thing I can accept are cryptographic algorithms, since as an outcome we get a product"
Of all the things...
Cryptography is math in this day and age. Patents on crypto are patents on math, with only the measly "ON A COMPUTER!!!!" clause justifying their existence.
- DanBC 14y agoSee, for example, Clifford Cocks who invented RSA before RSA did, but was unable to patent it, and thus didn't get the profits that RSA did. He got a nice medal though.
- spc476 14y agoIf that's the case, then why wasn't the RSA patent revoked due to prior art?
- jacques_chester 14y agoPrior art has to be published. For some strange reason, Her Majesty's cryptographers at GCHQ were loathe to give up all their classified goodies during the cold war. :)