Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: rumor: LZW patented by Unisys Message-ID: Date: 13 Oct 89 13:41:18 GMT References: <942@mountn.dec.com> <10181@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 15 In-reply-to: rlb@cs.odu.edu's message of 13 Oct 89 03:55:47 GMT In article <10181@xanth.cs.odu.edu> rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert L. Bailey) writes: Highly advanced cryptography algorithms might allow some foreign power to learn how to decode classified (i.e. encrypted) messages, etc. (As if they haven't figured it out already :-) And some of the more paranoid among us believe that the USG is more concerned about its own citizens being able to keep secrets from the USG. Given that the FBI has a fine history of spying on US citizens, maybe keeping secrets from the USG *isn't* a bad idea... -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.