[1465] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Netscape SSL Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Thu Sep 11 23:24:23 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:41:55 +0200 (DFT)
From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
----- Forwarded message from Dan Park -----
[...]
Craig R.P. Heath wrote:
>
> I don't know how many people are aware of this, but Netscape have
> just been granted a patent on SSL - US Patent number 5,657,390.
>
> The patent is entitled "Secure socket layer application program
> apparatus and method", and the abstract is as follows (from the
> patents.uspto.gov web site):
>
> "A computer program product comprising: a computer useable medium
> having computer readable program code means embodied therein for
> encrypting and decrypting information transferred over a network
> between a client application program running in a client computer
> and a server application program running in a server computer,
> the computer readable program code means in the computer program
> product comprising: computer readable program code means for
> providing a socket application program interface to an application
> layer program; computer readable program code means for providing
> encrypted information to transport protocol layer services; computer
> readable program code means for encrypting information received from
> an application layer program; and computer readable program code
> means for decrypting information received from transport protocol
> layer services."
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to what they may be planning to do with it?
>
> - Craig Heath, SCO.
----- End of forwarded message from Dan Park -----
