Patent on Bleichenbacher signature compression?

Paul Crowley <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:10:53 +0000

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http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-compressing-rabin-signatures-dt20050728ptan20050163314.php

seems to indicate that there's a patent application outstanding on 
Bleichenbacher's signature compression scheme.  I'm not sure this 
application can be valid; it appears that at least some related 
technique was published here:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/u8bmq3au94w6f96n/

in February 2004, while the date of application on the patent appears to 
be July 2005.  However, I could be misreading the situation.

Any thoughts?
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