>On Wednesday, October 11, Bo Elkjaer Wrote:
>>Yesterday oct. 10 NSA was granted another patent for a >cryptographic device
>invented by William Friedman. The >application for the >patent was filed oct. 23 1936
>-- 64 years >ago.
>
On 11 Oct 2000, raze wrote:
>My question is this; why would
On 11 Oct 2000, raze wrote:
> My question is this; why would they patent something that is 64 year old technology?
> This is like the Enigma machine no?!
Note that the patent-application was filed in 1936. Obviously they were
interested in keeping any info relating to the invention confidential
