[1481] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Netscape SSL Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sat Sep 13 19:24:55 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <9709111741.AA16992@public.uni-hamburg.de> from "Ulf [M_ller]" at "Sep 11, 97 07:41:55 pm"
To: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 15:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Since this was Hickman & ElGamal's work, does the fact that flaws in
the system required a protocol rewrite mean anything?
Also, what does this do to the IETF TLS work, and was the IETF
notified of this by Netscape?
Adam
Ulf [M_ller] wrote:
| ----- 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):
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