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Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?

To: "James A. Donald" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Elliptic curves, patent status?
From: Wei Dai <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:15:56 -0800 (PST)
Cc: [email protected]
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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.

Wei Dai

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