On 2010-04-22 9:17 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
At 9:40 PM -0400 4/20/10, Victor Duchovni wrote:
EC definitely has practical merit. Unfortunately the patent issues around
protocols using EC public keys are murky.
This is starting to turn around. More vendors are questioning the murk. Please
see<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mcgrew-fundamental-ecc>.
To summarize that document: All the EC stuff that you need was
published more than fifteen years ago,
therefore you cannot be violating patents if you stick to that stuff.
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