Prakash Kamath wrote:
My opinion: 2 times 2 = 4 no matter what approach you take, and so no one
can sue you to doing that Math. However, if someone comes up with a math
logic (software, hardware, combo, whatever) that does the same operation in
a superior way, then that is patentable.
I personally have been in the room when they've been threatening
and they try to make it seem that if you THINK about ECC you're a
bad implementor ;-) So it's been a thought-suppressing exercise.
Note it took the Europeans to have the nerve to put this into OpenSSL to
begin with. Nobody in North America would dare. Fortunately, the
Internet actually has a bad memory so we're yet again reproducing this
conversation. It's clearly better now.
Any decade now this may become popular. Hopefully before someone breaks
RSA.
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