Permanent Privacy - Are Snake Oil Patents a threat?

[Brecht Wyseur]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:02 +1200, David G. Koontz wrote:
> 
> I did a quick check to look for patent applications or patents by them and
> didn't find any.  This isn't definitive if a patent application isn't
> published.  The newest published patent application I found on encryption
> had an application date of 11 Dec 2007.  Some recently published patent
> applications are 6 or 7 years old, too.

This is the patent you're searching for:
Secure encryption system, device and method - Patent 20060193472

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