[44180] in Cypherpunks
Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Nov 29 19:55:42 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:51:04 +0100
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Wei Dai (weidai@eskimo.com) wrote:
> 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.
Especially considering that they might lose the patents in a court case
next month.
