[44109] in Cypherpunks
Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Nov 29 02:21:45 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:16:10 -0800
To: smithmi@dev.prodigy.com (Michael Smith), Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
At 05:16 PM 11/28/95 -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> 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?
No, but RSA will litigate you with the objective of
inflicting extravagant legal costs regardless.
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