[488] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: SSL Implementation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Thu Mar 2 03:25:35 1995
From: Wolfgang Roeckelein <wolfgang@wi.whu-koblenz.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 23:46:23 +0100
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: John Hemming - Chief Executive MarketNet <johnhemming@mkn.co.uk>
>In the UK mathematical forumulae cannot be patented which
>I believe is the case in many other countries. There is,
>therefore, no constraint in those countries given code that
>performs the optimised big number calculations.
While this is not clear (see e.g. the LZW patent, which seems to be a valid
European patent and notice also "For the patent "Method for Identifying
Subscribers and for Generating and Verifying Electronic Signatures in a Data
Exchange System" by Claus P. Schnorr (US patent number 4,995,082, filed
23.02.90, granted 19.02.91) Mr Schnorr claims to have world-wide patent
rights."), at least with the needed parts there are no problems, because 1) no
european patent exists and 2) this work has been published a long time ago
(making it no longer patentable in Europe IMHO).
Wolfgang
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