Maybe so, but given the relatively minor advantages of ECC certs I can see
why a CA might not want to take any risks. They are sitting ducks for
patent trolls.
I think ECC will still happen, though we end up back into NSA fear
territory thanks to the stupid way secp256r1 was defined. *Hopefully* there's
no back door.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adam Back <a...@cypherspace.org> wrote:
> According to Bernstein it's patent FUD (expired, ancient and solid prior
> art).
>
> http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-August/005126.html
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:33:57PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
>
>> Oh, one other reason I found - apparently RIM, at least in the past,
>> has been telling CA's that they need to pay mad bux for the Certicom
>> ECC patents. So that's another reason why most certs are still using
>> RSA.
>>
>
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