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Re: Patent restrictions on Crypto++ lib?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wei Dai)
Tue Jan 12 21:43:08 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:09:45 -0800
From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.990112153958.29341A-100000@fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>; from P. J. Ponder on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 03:52:16PM -0500
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 03:52:16PM -0500, P. J. Ponder wrote:
> Wei Dai's recently announced crypto library has some notes in it about
> licenses and mentions in the documentation that there may be patent
> restrictions on some of the code included in the distribution. I figure
> the RSA stuff is covered by a patent (due to expire in a year or two?) and
> I know that IDEA is covered by a European patent and is only free for
> personal use, not for commercial use. Other than those, does anyone know
> what other restrictions there may be on the software for US developers?
Some of the algorithms implemented in Crypto++ are being considered for
the IEEE P1363 standard. The P1363 working group has a web page on patent
issues at http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/patents.html.
Of course I do not mean to imply that the information there is either
complete or applicable to you, and I am not a lawyer.
