Ok I get a one-time pad and all.
But isn't it true that, while the assumption that
computers cannot store all the random data, all
they need to store is the segment of random data that was used to encrypt a given message?
Clearly you cannot encrypt a message with an infinite key on PC.
Why not just archive 1 year's worth of the pad, and then you can decrypt 1 year's worth of messages?
I am a fingerprint expert and linux user since 1994. It is my current job to make fingerprint
processing work on all sorts of systems.
Since I develop under linux, I try make sure linux
is a supported platform for much of my company's software. Therefore, the algorithms that
authenticate users are indeed runnning under linux.
However, we do not have productized linux drivers for our hardware yet (and it's difficult to make
a solid business case to spend the money) but
I'd be willing to provide specs to volunteers who'd like to write one.
For this reason, most of the linux installations are server-based with Windoze clients. There is even
one company experimenting with a Beowulf cluster.
Also, keep in mind that the agreement he has with
his former company is that he must sign over the
rights to the patent to his former employer.
nothing in his agreement forces him to patent
anything!
Therefore, he'll be asked to sign 2 things:
1) The patent app itself. This is where he should talk to his former company's patent attorney and work to get the patent disclosure itself correct.
2) The rights to the actual patent, assuming it is eventually awarded. This must be notarized. This one he absolutely must sign to honor the agreement with his former company.
1) If you know of prior art, you have the responsibility to tell the patent attorney of
it.
2) If the lawyers refuse to incorporate the prior
art into the patent, refuse to sign.
If they do, then you should sign.
Remember 2 things:
1) Every company wants to file as broad a patent as possible. They are simply worth more.
2) If prior art exists it is the responsibility of the inventors to disclose what they know and also the patent office to discover it based on previous filings. The first Office Action will no doubt bring these issues to light for the inventors to defend.
3) You are not a judge and jury. If this patent actually gets defended in court (and few ever do)
then the search for truth begins.As an inventor, your responsibility is simply to be honest and forthright about whether you believe your invention to be "new and useful" as is stated on the papers you're asked to sign.
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Ok I get a one-time pad and all. But isn't it true that, while the assumption that computers cannot store all the random data, all they need to store is the segment of random data that was used to encrypt a given message? Clearly you cannot encrypt a message with an infinite key on PC. Why not just archive 1 year's worth of the pad, and then you can decrypt 1 year's worth of messages?
I am a fingerprint expert and linux user since 1994. It is my current job to make fingerprint
processing work on all sorts of systems.
Since I develop under linux, I try make sure linux
is a supported platform for much of my company's software. Therefore, the algorithms that
authenticate users are indeed runnning under linux.
However, we do not have productized linux drivers for our hardware yet (and it's difficult to make
a solid business case to spend the money) but
I'd be willing to provide specs to volunteers who'd like to write one.
For this reason, most of the linux installations are server-based with Windoze clients. There is even
one company experimenting with a Beowulf cluster.
Also, keep in mind that the agreement he has with
his former company is that he must sign over the
rights to the patent to his former employer.
nothing in his agreement forces him to patent
anything!
Therefore, he'll be asked to sign 2 things:
1) The patent app itself. This is where he should talk to his former company's patent attorney and work to get the patent disclosure itself correct.
2) The rights to the actual patent, assuming it is eventually awarded. This must be notarized. This one he absolutely must sign to honor the agreement with his former company.
Here art the issues:
1) If you know of prior art, you have the responsibility to tell the patent attorney of
it.
2) If the lawyers refuse to incorporate the prior
art into the patent, refuse to sign.
If they do, then you should sign.
Remember 2 things:
1) Every company wants to file as broad a patent as possible. They are simply worth more.
2) If prior art exists it is the responsibility of the inventors to disclose what they know and also the patent office to discover it based on previous filings. The first Office Action will no doubt bring these issues to light for the inventors to defend.
3) You are not a judge and jury. If this patent actually gets defended in court (and few ever do)
then the search for truth begins.As an inventor, your responsibility is simply to be honest and forthright about whether you believe your invention to be "new and useful" as is stated on the papers you're asked to sign.