1995-11-29 - Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
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From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: “James A. Donald” <jamesd@echeque.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-29 21:17:59 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 05:17:59 +0800
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From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 05:17:59 +0800
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Subject: Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
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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
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