17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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. Wei Dai