DISQUS

Matasano Chargen: Vulnerability Patents

  • ol · 2 years ago
    So should they have patented rainbow tables?
  • Dan Weber · 2 years ago
    In my experience, patents issue much quicker than 7 years. Maybe 3 or 4 years. Which is still rather slow for what IW wants to do.
  • ShawnF · 2 years ago
    As you eluded to, thats what happened with DPA. First the attack came quickly followed by all (most?) countermeasures to the attack, patent applications were submitted for everything. The IC manufactures who where effected by the attack developed countermeasures. Of course they were the same ones. Circa 8 years later the patents came through. Now the card vendors are being asked to pay a lic fee. BRILLIANT!
  • sohbet · 5 months ago