[44087] in Cypherpunks
Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smith)
Tue Nov 28 18:05:33 1995
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:16:40 -0400
To: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: smithmi@dev.prodigy.com (Michael Smith)
I'm unclear about the patent status of elliptic curve
systems. Are they covered by the Diffie-Hellman patent?
That is, is the lnguage of this patent broad enough to
cover _all_ public-key systems, regardless of their
mathematical basis?
--Michael Smith
smithmi@dev.prodigy.com
