Brian Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why, when the de-facto standard of internet development/protocol work is to
use open (royalty-free) protocols, did the world of SSL seem to standardize
on a patented algorithm such as SSL. I mean SSL is totally out there for
the world to use, but this
http://www.cyberlaw.com/rsa.html
Know that one. The author, Patrick Flinn, was the attorney for Cylink (and
Stanford University, I think) in the long RSA/Cylink litigation over the
viability of the RSApkc patent.
In some corners of the industry, Mr. Flinn is remembered as the
-Original Message-
From: Geoff Thorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: RSA Patent Issues... interesting article...
Hi there,
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Vin McLellan wrote:
http://www.cyberlaw.com/rsa.html
good read
Brian Snyder wrote:
In short, this article only applies to SSL embedded clients, and that RSA is
legal to use to authenticate a signature to a web server (who have paid the
license fee)... in an embedded SSL client, the client doesnt really use RSA
for encryption of data. In anycase, I
Geoff Thorpe wrote:
Which leaves
the mathematical consideration of the multi-prime keys themselves, and
their generation, to be debated (ie. I doubt the patent could rest on an
argument that it is a physical process, or an implementation invention,
because that should bang its head on the
