Property RIghts in Keys

[Peter Gutmann]

[Moderator's note: my forwarding this is not an indication that I want
 to continue the "are certs IP" discussion. --Perry]

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> writes:

>However, a cert seems almost certainly *not* to be IP.
>
>[...]
>
>3) It can't be copyrighted, it contains no creativity.

You obviously haven't seen some of the certificates out there.  I've seen
interpretations of the X.509 spec floating around that deserve a Hugo award.

Peter.

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