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RE: ECC patents?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Thu Sep 15 14:04:40 2005
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:25:30 -0700
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
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At 09:54 2005-09-15 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
>I doubt that the NSA paid any money whatsoever for this
>license, making it profoundly unimpressive as evidence
>that *any* curves have a plausible valid patent. If the
>NSA paid real money, the patent holders would be
>sticking it in our face as a price setting precedent.
They (NSA) did pay, and they (Certicom) did stick it in our faces.
See, eg., http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1498136,00.asp . Did
you miss this at the time?
Greg.
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