[1]Roland Piquepaille writes "According to eWEEK, the National Security Agency (NSA) has [2]picked a commercial solution for its encryption technology needs, instead on relying on its own proprietary code. I was under the impression they had just licenced their *patent* - I would assume that the NSA were fully aware of EC, but were unwilling to admit to any prior art (and licencing the patent avoids the potential embarrassment if an NSA system were discovered to be already using this patented technology - remembering that other than prior art invalidating a patent which is a fairly drawn out legal process, there is no other defense against
Eugen Leitl wrote: patent infringement) I doubt the NSA need, trust or want anyone else's actual software for EC :)