[44120] in Cypherpunks
Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Bailey)
Wed Nov 29 08:14:05 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 08:13:10 EST
From: dan@milliways.org (Dan Bailey)
Reply-To: dan@milliways.org (Dan Bailey)
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:16:10 -0800 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
>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.
Does the patent create any headaches for elliptic curve research or
publishing elliptic curve papers, or just for new products?
Dan
