At 09:54 2005-09-15 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
I doubt that the NSA paid any money whatsoever for this license, making it profoundly unimpressive as evidence that *any* curves have a plausible valid patent. If the NSA paid real money, the patent holders would be sticking it in our face as a price setting precedent.
They (NSA) did pay, and they (Certicom) did stick it in our faces. See, eg., http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1498136,00.asp . Did you miss this at the time?
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