On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Does this prevent free software interoperability with Suite B standards? > It potentially could be used to block non-US vendors, certainly anyone > who is in the US Government's disfavor, but it seems to me that even > with no further intentional action by the NSA it would preclude software > under the GPL and maybe FOSS in general in countries in which the > patents are valid.
Since it turns out that ECDH and ECDSA with EC(GF_p) (even with point compression) are not patented the following can be considered as pro-FOSS: All implementations of Suite B must, at a minimum, include AES with 128-bit keys, the 256-bit prime modulus elliptic curve and SHA-256 as a common mode for widespread interoperability. [...] ECDH is appropriate for incorporation of Suite B into many existing Internet protocols such as the Internet Key Exchange (IKE), Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Secure MIME (S/MIME). -- Regards, ASK --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]