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Re: UUNET Network Encryption Patents
>Filed: Sep. 13, 1994
>Filed: Jan. 19, 1994
All the basic concepts of IP Security (especially including what we
now call "tunnel mode") have been widely and publicly known since at
least the original "lunch BOF" that I called at the San Diego IETF
meeting way back in 1992. So the validity of these patents is not
only seriously in doubt, but there is also the interesting question of
fraud against the PTO for not disclosing all known relevant prior art.
Phil
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