From: smithmi@dev.prodigy.com (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 06:51:45 +0800
To: Wei Dai <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
Message-ID: <199511282216.RAA17432@tinman.dev.prodigy.com>
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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? 

--Michael Smith
  smithmi@dev.prodigy.com