At 11:50 AM -0500 2/24/10, tytso(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu wrote:
I'm not a lawyer, and neither is Bruce Schneier who is quoted in the
article below, but I suspect he's studied the ECC patent situation
more than I have (and I looked it quite a bit back when I was chairing
ipsec).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents
draft-mcgrew-fundamental-ecc-02.txt is much more authoritative and up-to-date
than that Wikipedia article. Please read it and see if it changes your mind
about the patent situation for ECC in IETF protocols.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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