Elliptic curves, patent status?
Anonymous
anon-remailer at utopia.hacktic.nl
Wed Nov 29 17:09:32 PST 1995
Wei Dai (weidai at eskimo.com) wrote:
> 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.
Especially considering that they might lose the patents in a court case
next month.
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