17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Wei Dai (weidai@eskimo.com) wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
[are there patents that cover all public key cryptography?]
No, but RSA will litigate you with the objective of inflicting extravagant legal costs regardless.
RSADSI no longer owns the Stanford patents (Hellman-Merkel, Diffie-Hellman) which they used to claim covered all public key cryptography. Those patents now belong to Cylink, who seems to be less litigious.
Especially considering that they might lose the patents in a court case next month.