From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:09:32 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
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Wei Dai (weidai@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.