DSS patent license
Roger Schlafly
rschlafly at attmail.com
Sat Oct 14 11:56:14 PDT 1995
>>> 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+ at 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 at attmail.com
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