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Re: ECC patents?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Sep 13 09:21:51 2005
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:19:34 BST."
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:00:06 -0400
In message <43254826.8070105@algroup.co.uk>, Ben Laurie writes:
>Alexander Klimov wrote:
>>
>> But (potential) problem still persists: even if openssl implements ECC
>> it does not save you from patent issues if they exist.
>
>It does if they are owned by Sun.
>
It does if *all necessary patent rights* are owned (or licensed) by
Sun. For obvious reasons, it's remarkably hard to get someone to say
that they don't have a claim on some product.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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