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Re: Stambler patents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Jul 5 17:48:13 2000
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 21:25:09 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: "David A. Wagner" <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>, cryptography@c2.net
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"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
>
> 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.
I notice that RSA have failed to publish a statement for TLS, despite
their claim that they would. Their statement is also absent from the
RFC.
Cheers,
Ben.
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