On 6/12/06, Alen Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... If this truly locks away royalty-free use of DHTs and content-addressable storage (CAS) via hashing until 2019...
perhaps i'm missing something, but if this patent is valid (which i'd bet almost any amount of money it is not) than a lot more than just DHT's anc CAN's are affected, aren't they? this is "calling a datum by its digest", or self certifying identifier, and is enmeshed in more secure protocols and systems than i can count. how is this even novel? ... i must be missing something. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences