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The EC patent issues discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Wed Apr 21 22:06:03 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100421014035.GD24404@np305c2n2.ms.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:17:25 -0700
To: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@morganstanley.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
At 9:40 PM -0400 4/20/10, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>EC definitely has practical merit. Unfortunately the patent issues around
>protocols using EC public keys are murky.
This is starting to turn around. More vendors are questioning the murk. Please see <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mcgrew-fundamental-ecc>.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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