Re: [Patents] Cryptographic patent... and research. + Belgium

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 16:19, David GLAUDE wrote:
> The question might be... will brilliant mind continue to search if they 
> know the only reward for finding a nice cryptographic method is fame and 
> glory (not women and money).

I have no doubpts. That is said about Free Software as well (if it's
Free no one would produce the code), and I tend to answer: the gigabytes
in my computer prove that you're wrong and I'm right.

> Does anybody know if there was a rule about Patent in the AES 
> competition (won by Belgian with Rijndael). I know they have fame and 
> glory. But they did not get any (extra) money for what they did...
> 
> Also they did produce source code in some open source licence.

I think that one of the rules was that the algorithm should be available
to all, but I can't find the reference.

Rui

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