17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 05:16 PM 11/28/95 -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
I'm unclear about the patent status of elliptic curve systems. Are they covered by the Diffie-Hellman patent? That is, is the lnguage of this patent broad enough to cover _all_ public-key systems, regardless of their mathematical basis?
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