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Re: UUNET Network Encryption Patents



At 02:21 PM 6/17/96 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>The UUNET people did their work AFTER vast amounts of prior art was
>produced. Network layer encryption based on source/destination address
>goes back much further, and even products existed, from my memory,
>before then. Hell, blacker predates all of this. I also remember there
>having been work on this stuff ten years earlier by our own Steve Kent.

Yeah, I'd suspect that there is an earlier patent :)

I'm feeling a little perverse today.  Been one of those mondays.

Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
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