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Re: ECC patents?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Thu Sep 15 14:04:17 2005
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:22:20 -0400
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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> If the NSA paid anything significant for any of the
> curves, we would be told.
You were better off not responding; you have lost your credibility on
this topic.
Given
the NSA's history of secrecy; and
the fact that it's common practice to not disclose
(financial) terms (e.g., what were the terms to get RSA
into early SSL?) and that either/both parties have incentive
to keep it private; and
the way they handled the SHA-1-Schnorr patent issues,
I find it *highly significant* that the NSA announced, in a public
forum, that they have a license for part of the Certicom patents.
I am sure that I'm not alone.
/r$
--
Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
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