http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Features/spies221199.shtml
Spies in the 'forests'
By Suelette Dreyfus
22 November 1999
THE US Department of Defense is lab-testing technology that could
make it easier automatically to sift through a vast pool of private
At 10:20 PM 11/21/1999 -, Some Ostensibly Anonymous Person remailed
an article to coderpunks, which Bob Hettinga reposted to cryptography
and probably also to cypherpunks. David Wagner's developed a blinding
method probably not covered by Chaum's existing patents, which
has been implemented
Bill Stewart writes:
At 10:20 PM 11/21/1999 -, Some Ostensibly Anonymous Person remailed
an article to coderpunks, which Bob Hettinga reposted to cryptography
and probably also to cypherpunks. David Wagner's developed a blinding
method probably not covered by Chaum's existing patents,
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 03:14:45PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
Craig Raskin writes:
http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec6/papers/nsa-rev.ps
Why would the NSA patent this? It's not like the NSA can't keep a
(trade) secret.
My guess: They are expecting somebody else to develop it separately,
