On 16 December 2010 19:05, Sean Mullan <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, but there are ECC patents that each vendor needs to consider on their > own. Since these are requirements that all Java SE 7 implementations would > have to support, it did not seem appropriate to make any ECC algorithms > required or in general any algorithm that may be protected by patents. >
Good to see that was considered. I checked over the list specifically to make sure ECC wasn't included for this reason. Thanks, -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
