Re: The EC patent issues discussion

[James A. Donald]

On 2010-04-22 9:17 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

At 9:40 PM -0400 4/20/10, Victor Duchovni wrote:
   

EC definitely has practical merit. Unfortunately the patent issues around
protocols using EC public keys are murky.
 

This is starting to turn around. More vendors are questioning the murk. Please 
see.
   


To summarize that document:  All the EC stuff that you need was 
published more than fifteen years ago,

 therefore you cannot be violating patents if you stick to that stuff.


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The EC patent issues discussion

[Paul Hoffman]

At 9:40 PM -0400 4/20/10, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>EC definitely has practical merit. Unfortunately the patent issues around
>protocols using EC public keys are murky.

This is starting to turn around. More vendors are questioning the murk. Please 
see .

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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