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Re: NTT offering free licenses for algorithms (incl. Camellia)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Apr 23 11:03:51 2001
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:34:47 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Kristen Tsolis <ktsolis@mindspring.com>
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Kristen Tsolis wrote:
>
> According to Nikkan Kogyo News, NTT is offering four patented algorithms
> under royalty-free license for limited purposes.
>
> These algorithms include Camellia, EPOC, PSEC, and ESIGN.
>
> http://news.yahoo.co.jp/headlines/nkn/010418/nkn/081000000_nkn000013.html
>
> NTT made this announcement on the same day as the last CRYPTREC meeting. The
> CRYPTREC project was initiated by Japan's Information-technology Promotion
> Agency (IPA).
>
> The goal of CRYPTREC is to define standard cryptographic algorithms for use
> within the Japanese government.
>
> http://www.ipa.go.jp/security/enc/CRYPTREC/index-e.html
There was extensive discussion on the inclusion of Camellia in TLS
ciphersuites recently - I can't remember the outcome, though, sorry.
Cheers,
Ben.
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