discussion on increasing amount of gpg signatures...

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Sun Oct 14 12:25:01 2001


Owen Blacker <owen@flirble.org> writes:


>> IIRC, the most obvious challenge-response protocol (and the most
>> sensible one) for certifying keys has been patented, and I don't
>> know if the extension to cover (multiple) email addresses is enough
>> to bypass this patent. (Just in case if you want to do this more
>> regularly.)
>
> Patented where.
In the US.
> We're not all in the same jurisdictions here... :)
The patent is some kind of business method patent, so it cannot be patented in most jurisdictions without substantial tweaking.