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Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid.

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On 1/24/2013 12:27 PM, unruh wrote:
> On 2013-01-24, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 1/24/2013 12:10 AM, Martin Musatov wrote:
>>>
>>> The techniques all listed above and the intellectual property rights
>>> associated with them are (C) Copyright 2013 Martin Musatov. They may
>>> be used or adapted by any entity provided partial credit is provided
>>> to Martin Musatov and is documented as well as when this occurs in
>>> conjunction with a non-public donation to a charity equal to the value
>>> of the contribution.
>>>
>>
>> And not worth the bandwidth they took to process.
>>
>> BTW - you can copyright text (including code), but you cannot copyright
>> a concept.  If your concept were worth anything, anyone could use it at
>> any time without any credit to you or any payment to anyone.
>>
>> If you want to protect a concept you need to patent it.
>
> Except you cannot patent concepts either. You can patent things or
> processes or designs, but not concepts or ideas.
> And you cannot copyright "intellectual property". The category
> "intellectual property" refers to things which a copyrightable,
> patentable or trademarkable. It is not a category which has any
> independent definition beyond the definition of those categories.
> It is an entirely artificial concept with the word "property" used in a
> purely mataphoric sense.
>>

In the United States you can, anyway.  I don't know about the rest of 
the world.

Many computer algorithms are patented.  For instance, the RSA algorithm 
is U.S. Patent 4,405,829.  I don't see that as any different than what 
the op is proposing.

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Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. Martin Musatov <marty.musatov@gmail.com> - 2013-01-23 21:10 -0800
  Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. Martin Musatov <marty.musatov@gmail.com> - 2013-01-23 21:15 -0800
  Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-01-24 07:21 -0500
    Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-01-24 17:27 +0000
      Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-01-24 15:18 -0500
        Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2013-01-24 14:48 -0600
          Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-01-24 16:35 -0500
            Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2013-01-24 16:49 -0600
              Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-01-24 20:03 -0500
          Re: Information Theoretically Secure requirements scheme for improving and implementing intelligent encryption requiring human intervention or decision to be valid. marty.musatov@gmail.com - 2014-02-09 10:31 -0800

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