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Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Brodhead)
Wed Feb 27 12:49:27 2002
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Reply-To: mkb@black-ice.org
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>
Cc: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>,
"Phillip H. Zakas" <pzakas@toucancapital.com>,
"'Eugene Leitl'" <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
"'Cryptography List'" <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:40:40 PST."
<Pine.LNX.4.40.0202260832330.18597-100000@newbolt.sonic.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:38:03 -0800
From: Mike Brodhead <mkb@black-ice.org>
> Isn't Elliptic-Curve patent-encumbered?
I think we went through this a few weeks ago. Nope. Fortunately, ECC
per-se is not patent encumbered. Scott Vanstone makes much of that
in his ECC dog and pony show.
Of course, free ECC does not mean some nice optimizations aren't
patented.
--mkb
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