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Re: Netscape SSL Patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Sep 15 19:19:31 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:37:21 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
CC: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, cryptography@c2.net
Tom Weinstein wrote:
>
> 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.
Apart from the fact that Taher was involved in the TLS setup, had a duty
to reveal the patent application, and didn't do so. But I guess that is
more a problem for Netscape than TLS.
At least trying to patent SSL isn't quite so daft as trying to patent
preforking. :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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