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Re: Netscape SSL Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Mon Sep 15 14:45:33 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:38:46 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
CC: cryptography@c2.net
Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> 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?
It doesn't do anything to the TLS work, because we're going to try to do
whatever it takes to make sure that TLS goes forward. I'll probably be
able to say more in a couple days.
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