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Re: IBM press release - encryption and authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Crowley)
Mon Dec 11 18:53:47 2000
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@caveosystems.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk>
Date: 11 Dec 2000 21:37:50 +0000
In-Reply-To: Rich Salz's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:29:48 -0500"
Message-ID: <871yveiqq9.fsf@hedonism.subnet.hedonism.cluefactory.org.uk>
Rich Salz <rsalz@caveosystems.com> writes:
> > 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
Eh? It would be bad if a patented system became an IETF standard.
And if we could make such a standard, it should almost certainly be
one of the other proposals heard by NIST, Galois-field OCB.
[A draft does not imply an IETF standard in the making. Anyone can
publish a draft, or even an RFC. --Perry]
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