On: Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million

[danielweber]

If he claimed to invent PKC and the other side points out he hadn't, his credibility goes down the toilet.

I saw lots of love for Diffie's "I invented it" line. But if he overplayed his hand, he ended up hurting his side more than he helped it.

[gknoy → danielweber]

When there are museums that consider you to have invented it, and you DID invent it (just perhaps were not the first, though that was not known at the time), it seems fair to say that you did.

After all, we consider that both Newton and Leibnitz invented calculus.

[danielweber → gknoy]

Then he should have said that. "I am often called the inventor of public key cryptography.[1]"

But it would not have been as cool to quote on web forums.

[1] I don't know if that's heresy or whatever; Egghead's legal team, however, would know and could coach him appropriately.