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Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Wu)
Tue Oct 24 10:46:40 2000
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:47:24 -0700
From: Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>
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To: Rich Salz <rsalz@caveosystems.com>
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Rich Salz wrote:
>
> > I'm the inventor of SRP. The version of the protocol described in RFC
> > 2945 (see http://srp.stanford.edu/) is royalty-free for worldwide use.
>
> I've heard from two sources that the Stanford licensing office believes
> otherwise.
Originally, their intent was to charge royalties, but I have since
convinced them of the merits of Open Source licensing. :-)
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Tom Wu
Principal Software Engineer
Arcot Systems
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