Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?

2000-10-24 Thread Tom Wu
Rich Salz wrote: I'm the inventor of SRP. The version of the protocol described in RFC 2945 (see http://srp.stanford.edu/) is royalty-free for worldwide use. I've heard from two sources that the Stanford licensing office believes otherwise. Originally, their intent was to charge

Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?

2000-10-24 Thread Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking
About SRP: 1) is it also royalty free for commercial use? I'd heard it was for "noncommercial use" 2) even though RSP might be free, has anyone verified that SRP doesn't infringe on EKE? Radia From: Tom Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0

Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?

2000-10-24 Thread Tom Wu
SRP is free for both commercial and non-commercial use. We've gone through the prior art, and we're now pretty sure that SRP is clear of any of the existing IP claims and software patents that encumber other forms of this technology. Tom Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking wrote:

Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?

2000-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Altman
About SRP: 1) is it also royalty free for commercial use? I'd heard it was for "noncommercial use" Here is the text from the LICENSE file included in distribution: SRP and all related technologies are free for both commercial and non-commercial use. They are distributed under a

DCSB: Ramzan and Van Someren; Minting Millidollars for Streaming Cash

2000-10-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:13:50 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DCSB: Ramzan and Van Someren; Minting Millidollars for Streaming Cash Cc: Ted Byfield [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED],