[44166] in Cypherpunks
Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wei Dai)
Wed Nov 29 15:34:12 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:15:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511290717.XAA29808@blob.best.net>
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
> > [are there patents that cover all public key cryptography?]
>
> No, but RSA will litigate you with the objective of
> inflicting extravagant legal costs regardless.
RSADSI no longer owns the Stanford patents (Hellman-Merkel,
Diffie-Hellman) which they used to claim covered all public key
cryptography. Those patents now belong to Cylink, who seems to be less
litigious.
Wei Dai
