[1482] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Netscape SSL Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Sat Sep 13 19:26:22 1997
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:57:39 -0400
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
The claims sound somewhat like SP4, with the obvious extension
to the TCP/IP 5ish-layer world rather than the OSI 7ish-layer one
(using sockets to reach application layer rather than
session/presentation/appl.)
SP3 was the above-layer-3 protocol, and I think SP4 was above-layer-4
rather than bottom-of-layer-4, but it's been a while.
Nope, just below level 4.
Me -- I think the claims sound like Kerberos. (I was going to read the
whole thing, but it's 118 pages, rather more than I want to keep around
in scanned images. I'll have to get hold of the real thing. How, pray
tell, can one write up a 118 patent on something obvious, then have
just three trivial claims?)
