>   I don't want to offend americans, but I think that they are fools
because
> they allow patenting of algorithms (or almost anything else). It's like
> patenting hot water or a fork.
>   Here you can have the copyright of a program, but you can't patent it.

Yea, and look what happened to 128-bit encryption... *sigh*

Australians can rest assured that our "secure" internet transactions are
running on wonderfully weak 40-bit encryption.  Somehow I don't feel very
safe.

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Lance.
The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone

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