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		spc476 on April 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Patent Protection Racket If that's the case, then why wasn't the RSA patent revoked due to prior art?

jacques_chester on April 3, 2013 [–]

Prior art has to be published.

For some strange reason, Her Majesty's cryptographers at GCHQ were loathe to give up all their classified goodies during the cold war. :)

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