Eric asks whether elliptic encryption might not be a solution to the world's patenting woes. Last April, schirado@lab.cc.wmich.edu (Schirado) asked whether anyone was interested in trying an implementation. I was relatively free of work at that time, and volunteered. Then I got busy; IAC it appeared far too slow for software. Read: _An Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems Over F-2-155_ , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 11, #5, June 1993 (page 804). Incidentally Next Computer's Fast Elliptic Encryption, FEE, used elliptic curves, and is patented (by R E Crandell, USP# 5,159,632,27 October 1992); also, elliptic crypto is probably covered by the DH/PKP patents. "We know everything about you that we need to know" - Coleta Brueck, IRS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "In between the breaths is rishab@dxm.ernet.in the space where we live" rishab@arbornet.org - Lawrence Durrell Voice/Fax/Data +91 11 6853410 Voicemail +91 11 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA