On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:52:39PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > There's an interesting question. Is a public key copyrightable? In other > words, does VeriSign have any legal grounds to restrict use of their > public keys at all? My understanding is that copyright laws speak about original works with some creativity in them. Computer-generated, seemingly random string of numbers hardly is such a work. - Nikke -- Niklas Vainio <niklas.vainio@iki.fi>