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Re: IBM press release - encryption and authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Mon Dec 11 01:05:05 2000
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:29:48 -0500
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@caveosystems.com>
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> No word, of course, on how the thing actually works, or whether they
> intend to patent it.
Not so. Search your nearest IETF internet-drafts repository for
draft-jutla-ietf-ipsec-esp-iapm-00.txt
And in there you will find
5. Intellectual Property Issues
IBM has filed U.S. patents on this mode and its vari-
ants in April, 2000.
Ennui has its places, this just wasn't one of them. :)
/r$
