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Back in 2015, Personal Audio's claimed patent was invalidated by a federal court.
Podcasters, you can now engage in your lengthy Maron opens without the feeling of being legally targeted by a Texas company that many would consider to be a patent troll.
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear the case of Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier Foundation. In short, the case is all said and done.
As Ars reported in August 2017, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the April 2015 inter partes review (IPR) ruling—a process that allows anyone to challenge a patent's validity at the US Patent and Trademark Office.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 16 2018, @08:10AM
The NSA never discloses crypto secrets even to the diplomats and military personnel who use them in their work.
The best anyone ever knows is that the "NSA approved it".
From time to time the NSA withdraws its approval. This because there is a separate department in the NSA who cryptanalyzes every proposed algorithm. That department never "approves" anything, they only tell the department that creates proposed algorithms that "we cracked it".
Were the Soviets ever to have cracked one of our algoriths quite likely the way These United States would have found out about it was when a couple sub-launched missiles vaporized DC as well as New York City.
That "disapproval department" NEVER gets the source code, they only have a black box which, if they're really lucky, from time to time they can feed it some chosen plaintext.
Source: James Bamford, "The Puzzle Palace", Ninth Edition.
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