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Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Oct 22 14:33:05 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 09:51:36 -0400
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In message <20001021201251.A630@madcap.dyndns.org>, Ng Pheng Siong writes:
>Hi,
>
>What is the patent situation with SRP, SPEKE and other so-called
>strong password protocols?
>
EKE and AEKE are patented; those patents (US 5,241,599 and US
5,440,735) are owned by Lucent.
--Steve Bellovin
