Re: IBM press release - encryption and authentication

[Paul Crowley]

Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > No word, of course, on how the thing actually works, or whether they
> > intend to patent it.
> 
> Not so.  Search your nearest IETF internet-drafts repository for 
>       draft-jutla-ietf-ipsec-esp-iapm-00.txt

Eh?  It would be bad if a patented system became an IETF standard.
And if we could make such a standard, it should almost certainly be
one of the other proposals heard by NIST, Galois-field OCB.

[A draft does not imply an IETF standard in the making. Anyone can
publish a draft, or even an RFC.  --Perry]

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