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Re: The EC patent issues discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Apr 22 10:57:16 2010
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:49:17 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
CC: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@morganstanley.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <p0624088ac7f53785e385@[10.20.30.158]>
On 2010-04-22 9:17 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 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>.
>
To summarize that document: All the EC stuff that you need was
published more than fifteen years ago,
therefore you cannot be violating patents if you stick to that stuff.
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