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[Fwd: Netscape SSL Patent]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Sep 12 00:04:13 1997
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From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Interesting...
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 06:41:56 +0100
To: ssl-users@mincom.oz.au
From: "Craig R.P. Heath" <craig@sco.COM>
Subject: Netscape SSL Patent
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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.
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