Rich Ankney says:
You are, of course, correct. I should have said "implementation tricks."
"Implementation trick" won't cut it either. "Implementation trick" would
be something that takes input A, produces output B, but does that
differently, saving time, memory, etc. But one would be able
to do a "straightforward unoptimized" implementation that
would take the same A and output the same B, possibly
spending twic as many seconds. Easy.
In this case however, we are talking about the DATA FORMATS. So if
the "licensed" product uses point compression, and your freeware
does not ('cause it's patented) - you'd have sweet time trying
to interoperate.
Do you see my concern?
I'll try to track down the letter ANSI got from Certicom about MQV.
Please!!
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