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Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Fri Feb 1 13:36:37 2002
From: jamesd@echeque.com
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>,
Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:38:28 -0800
Message-ID: <3C58F474.19753.9B540@localhost>
In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0201272117220.13380-100000@sun3.lrz-muenchen.de>
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On 27 Jan 2002, at 21:17, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> I think the only patents of particular note for ECC are
> Certicom and H.P.'s ones on point-compression.
The original paper on ECC proposed point compression and
described the algorithm in 1985.
See Bernstein's web page
http://cr.yp.to/nistp224/patents.html
Use the 1985 method.
If the methods patented are the same, and as far as I can
tell they are, the patents are invalid. If the methods
patented differ, you are not using them.
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James A. Donald
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