[41476] in Cypherpunks
DSS patent license
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Schlafly)
Sat Oct 14 15:02:53 1995
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 11:55:54 -0800
From: rschlafly@attmail.com (Roger Schlafly)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, eli@UX3.SP.CS.CMU.EDU
>>> RSA Data Security, Inc.
>>> today announced that it is now licensing patents for the Digital Signature
>>> Standard (DSS), the U.S. government standard for digital signatures.
>>
>> I believe someone was suing the U.S. government on the grounds that the
>> public signature standard wasn't supposed to require proprietary
>> technology. Has this gone anywhere yet?
>>
>> --
>> Eli Brandt
>> eli+@cs.cmu.edu
Yes, I had such a lawsuit. No, it didn't go anywhere in the courts,
but the feds did eventually cave in to the principal demand of my
suit: That the DSA patent be made available to anyone on a royalty-free
basis.
So how is it that RSADSI and Cylink/CKC claim you need licenses to
their patents to use DSS? Because they have other patents. I have
another lawsuit directed at those patents. Stay tuned.
Roger Schlafly
rschlafly@attmail.com
