[7436] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Stambler patents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jul 5 12:09:45 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David A. Wagner)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 09:47:14 -0400
Message-Id: <20000705134715.E056A35DC2@smb.research.att.com>
In message <8ju2u9$enk$1@blowfish.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu>, David A. Wagner write
s:
>Does anyone know anything about the ``Stambler Internet Security
>Patents''? Apparently, Leon Stambler is claiming that he owns patents
>covering basic SSL technology---particularly the handshaking process.
>Seems like a stretch.
>
>I'm wondering whether I should be worried about any potential impact
>on SSL/TLS. Has anyone had any experience with the patents? Know if
>anyone is getting sued over them? Has the IETF recognized them?
The IETF takes no position on the validity of patents. Any assertions
of patent rights to a particular protocol are published at
http://www.ietf.org/ipr.html; also, see RFC 2026 for a discussion of
the Internet standards process, and in particular Section 10, which
discusses intellectual property considerations.
--Steve Bellovin
