From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 03:13:43 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
Message-ID: <199511290717.XAA29808@blob.best.net>
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At 05:16 PM 11/28/95 -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> I'm unclear about the patent status of elliptic curve 
> systems. Are they covered by the Diffie-Hellman patent? 
> That is, is the lnguage of this patent broad enough to 
> cover _all_ public-key systems, regardless of their 
> mathematical basis? 

No, but RSA will litigate you with the objective of
inflicting extravagant legal costs regardless.

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