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RSA Data Security, Inc. today announced that it is now licensing patents for the Digital Signature Standard (DSS), the U.S. government standard for digital signatures.

I believe someone was suing the U.S. government on the grounds that the public signature standard wasn't supposed to require proprietary technology. Has this gone anywhere yet?

-- Eli Brandt eli+@cs.cmu.edu

Yes, I had such a lawsuit. No, it didn't go anywhere in the courts, but the feds did eventually cave in to the principal demand of my suit: That the DSA patent be made available to anyone on a royalty-free basis. So how is it that RSADSI and Cylink/CKC claim you need licenses to their patents to use DSS? Because they have other patents. I have another lawsuit directed at those patents. Stay tuned. Roger Schlafly rschlafly@attmail.com