What Would You Do With a New Form of Encryption? 868
Kip Knight asks: "I've been sitting on an invention for six months now. I'm debating whether to 'give it to the world' or patent it. I would obviously like to feed my family on the fruits of my endeavour but don't see much hope in the open source route. My invention improves upon the 80 year old One-Time Pad encryption turning it into a 'Many-Time Pad'. Since I haven't got my export license to speak about the details yet, I won't describe further. The advantages are proof (i.e. unbreakable) against brute force attacks and known-plaintext attacks (unlike the OTP). The disadvantage is carrying around a very large digital key (which could easily fit on one of those USB memory key fobs). My question is this: Could I sell enough $10 shareware GPG extensions to compensate for not locking in 20 years of patent protection (and the $20,000 to patent it)?" While the claims made by the submittor have yet to withstand the crucial test of time (and prying eyes), if you had developed a new form of encryption, what would you do?
Patent it... (Score:5, Funny)
The same thing I do every day... (Score:5, Funny)
Too late (Score:4, Funny)
Butt is a prior art, iirc.
Do Nothing (Score:5, Funny)
That would be the best encryption you can have. The one only you know about.
Well (Score:5, Funny)
(sound of pitter-pattering many greedy feet scurrying to the nearest PTO)
Second:
1. Patent new encryption algorithm.
2. Sell to highest bidder.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Ah well, you could always be more philanthrophic than me, and support FSF, but hell, I'm just a capitalist at heart.
Support Slashdot with it (Score:5, Funny)
I was in the same situation; here's what I did (Score:5, Funny)
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Poke your stick into a hornet's nest (Score:2, Funny)
Idea (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Easy. (Score:4, Funny)
The first thing (Score:4, Funny)
aol... (Score:5, Funny)
Try to break it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I was in the same situation; here's what I did (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Easy. (Score:4, Funny)
Patent it, allow people to use it for free, once it becomes a worldwide standard, change your license terms to demand royalties from everyone using it.
Ethically and morally repugnant, but it makes a few bucks...
Re:I was in the same situation; here's what I did (Score:3, Funny)
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How dare you insult my mother like that!
Re:Easy. (Score:5, Funny)
What, they ran out of monkeys and had to go lower on the evolutionary ladder?
Re:Mathematically impossible (Score:2, Funny)
You idiots! They are talking about a new reusable maxi-pad for the elderly, not encyption! Cripes RTFP!
Re:I was in the same situation; here's what I did (Score:5, Funny)
Don't
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A commercial? What a gip!
Intersections (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Easy. (Score:2, Funny)
And... (Score:3, Funny)
copyright better than patent? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:learn to play the patent game (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you want to make money, patent it (Score:5, Funny)
He didn't say 'incredibly weak.'
Rather, he said 'incredibly week.'
How can something be week (a calendar unit) rather than a week? While sometimes nouns are used as adverbs, extending the meaning. The most likely meaning for the adverb week, would be: having to do with a week, or weeks. And since our names for the week-days come from ancient gods, he was probably likening the one time pad to the unbeatable thunder god Thor.
Thor, of course, would be totally unbreakable.
For someone to see all this instantly--and then call it obvious--means that he is on a level of genius that our puny mathematical brains cannot possibly understand--nor should we try to.
(Mathematics is simply the art of finding equivalent statements. Psycho-analyze all the word problems and you're guareenteed at least D--so build from there.)
I would... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too late (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, there is also prior art for that method:
The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
So, you see, the "watch up the ass" was clearly documented prior to Mr. Walken placing the watch up his own ass, predating Mr. Walken's use of said method by five years.
However, given the circumstances, it is quite likely that a verbal agreement was reached for patent cross-licensing, allowing Mr. Walken full rights to said method in an enterprise environment.
Re:Easy. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:learn to play the patent game (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not falling for that trick-- (Score:4, Funny)
Cool!.. (Score:3, Funny)
Wow!
Re:Easy. (Score:2, Funny)
Encrypt it and post (Score:2, Funny)
-DCookie
Re:I was in the same situation; here's what I did (Score:3, Funny)
*shrugs*
In case anyone is scratching their head at this... [imdb.com]
I have one too (Score:1, Funny)
I take a one time pad...use it to set 3 no 4 wheels each with 26 letters on them. then have 2 additional wheels to interchange. I have a plugboard on the back to further complicate things. It reuses one time phrase but alters after each use to defeat all known cryptanalysis. thus many-time pad from initial one time pad.
*checks patent*
seems some german guys are using this....
=-P
Re:I was in the same situation; here's what I did (Score:3, Funny)
Banya: THAT'S GOLD JERRY!!!! ...GOLD!!!!
Re:If you want to make money, patent it (Score:0, Funny)
-- --Bryan Olson Cryptologic Engineer, Certicom Corp
What I would do (Score:3, Funny)
I would do exactly the same. I'd ask Slashdot!
Re:Easy. (Score:4, Funny)
Even simpler than using an OTP, just distribute your message using whatever secure means you used to distribute your OTP. Patent office, here I come!
Re:aol... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I was in the same situation; here's what I did (Score:2, Funny)
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How dare you insult my mother like that!
heh... its like a nerdy rorschach inkblot.
What Would You Do With a New Form of Encryption? (Score:2, Funny)