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Re: ECC patents?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Sep 13 09:22:37 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:32:15 -0700
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Alexander Klimov
> But (potential) problem still persists: even if
> openssl implements ECC it does not save you from
> patent issues if they exist.
Anyone can claim to have patented anything. Someone
recently patented the wheel, to show how bad the
situation is. I think these guys are just blowing
smoke. It has been a long time, and no one has paid out
money on an ECC patent yet.
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James A. Donald
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