On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > I'll predict a similarly invisible "land rush" when ECC patents run out, > assuming > that its patented and also considered useful when the supposed patents > expire.
the major one is hardware, and it expires in april 2005. A minor one is MQV, and it expires soon after. Otherwise, there's not that many patents on ECC. No need to, people keep finding faster ways of doing things and publishing it :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike