And as a timely item on this topic, RFC 8032 (Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) was just published - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8032 It was specifically published to facilitate adoption in the Internet community. The RFC makes no mention of any IPR claims as far as I can tell from a quick read.
Best, Peter On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:44 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <CAL0qLwZH=cxA5hyvktOR85dJ0useF5ska29dL6N= > [email protected]> you write: > >The last time I broached the topic of adding EC to DKIM, I was told > there's > >no way that could proceed because EC was heavily encumbered by IPR claims. > >Is that no longer the case? > > RFC 7479 adds Ed25519 to SSH and has no IPR disclosures. > > Dan Bernstein is the primary author of Ed25519 and he's said it has no > patent problems: > > https://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html > > R's, > John > > _______________________________________________ > dmarc mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc > -- [image: logo for sig file.png] Bringing Trust to Email Peter Goldstein | CTO & Co-Founder [email protected] +1.415.793.5783
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